Choucoune (The Mocking Bird)

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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

CHOUCOUNE (The Mocking Bird)
Haitian folk song
Key: F

 4   -4    4   -3  -3* -3* -3  -3*   4   -3
Have you heard the song of the mock-ing bird
 4   -4    4   -3  -3* -3* -3  -3*   4   -3
Have you heard the song of the mock-ing bird
 -1  -1   3  -3*  -5   1   1   -2  -3  4
When you sad and blue then he mock at you
1   1    2   3  -3*  1  1   -2  -3  4
He sing high a-bove and he laff at love
-1 -1  3   -3*  -5  1   1  -2   -3   4
Oh I heard his tune by the Hai-tian moon
 1   1  -3* -3  3    -2
When I lost my Chou-coune

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