Kentucky Babe

by Southern-American folk song · posted by WaltP

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

KENTUCKY BABE
W: Richard Henry Buck
M: Adam Giebel
1896
Key: A

  6    6  6  6 -6* -6*-6*
Skeet-ers am a-hum-min’on
 5*  6  6   6   5* -6*
The hon-ey-suck-le vine
  6     5*  6  -7  7*
Sleep, Ken-tuck-y babe
 -6* -6*-6*-6* 7* 7*  7*
Sand-man am a-com-in’ to
 -5  -6* -6* -6*  -5  7*
This lit-tle babe of mine
 -6*   -6* -6* -7  7*
Sleep, Ken-tuck-y babe
-7   -7   -7  -7  7*  7*
Sil-v’ry moon am shin-in’
7*  7*  -6* -6* -6* -6* 6
In the heav-ens high a-bove
-7 -7  -7  -7  7* 7*
Bob-o-link am pin-in’
 7*  7* -6* -6* -6*-6* 6 
For his lit-tle la-dy love
 6  6    6   6  -6 -6
You is might-y luck-y
 6   6   6   6   -6 -6
Babe of old Ken-tuck-y
  6    -6*  7*  -7   -8 8
Close your eyes and sleep
 8* 5* 6
Fly a-way
 6  6  6   5* -6* -6* -6*
Fly a-way Ken-tuck-y babe
 6  6  6  5*  -6*  -9 -6* 7*
Fly a-way to rest, fly a-way
-6* -6*  -6* -6*  7*  7* 7*
Lay your lit-tle wool-y head
-6*-6*-6*  5*    6
On yo’mam-my’s breast 
-7-66-3  -7-66-3
Hmm      hmm
  6    6    6   6    6
Close your eyes in sleep

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