The Old Orange Flute (chrom)

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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

THE OLD ORANGE FLUTE chrom
Irish folk song
Key: D
Time: 6/8

-1 -1   -1 -2* -3  -3
In the coun-ty Ty-rone
 3   -2*  2   -1  2  -2* -1
Near the town of Dun-gan-non
 -1   -1 -2* -3 -5   -5
Where man-y the ruc-tions
-5  4*  -3 -4  4*  -3
Me-self had a han’-in
-3  -5   -5  -5    4*
Bob Wil-liam-son lived
-2* 3  -3 -4  -3
A weav-er by trade
-1  -1 -2* -2*   3    -3
And all of us thought him
3   2   -1  1*   -1
A stout Or-ange blade
-3 -3    -5    -3 -3 -3
On the twelfth of Ju-ly
-4 -4  -4  3   3   3
As it year-ly did come
-4    -3    -2* -2*  -2*
Bob played with his flute
3  -3    3   2  2  2
To the sound of a drum
-3  -3   -5  -5  -5   4*
You may talk of your harp
 -3 -2* 3 -3 -4  -3
Your pi-an-o or lute
-1    -1     -1  -2* -2*  3
But there’s none can com-pare
 -3   3   2  -1  1*   -1
With the old or-ange flute

Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound