Blue Prelude

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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

BLUE PRELUDE
W: Gordon Jenkins
M: Joe Bishop
Nina Simone
Key: Bb

-5  -5  7     7  7  -7
Let me sigh, let me cry
 7    7  -6*-7
When I'm blue
-5  -5 7   -5   -3*  3   4* 4 -3*  3
Let me go ‘way from this lone-ly town
 -5   -5  7    7   7   -7
Won't be long till my song
 7   7  -6*-7
Will be thru
  -5  -5  7   -5 -3* 3  4* 4 -3*3 3
‘Cause I know I'm on my last go-round
-5  -5   7   7   7    -6   -6  -6 -5  -5
All the love I could steal beg or bor-row
 -5   -5   7    7   7    -6  -6 -6  -5
Would-n't heal all this pain in my soul
-3*  4   4*   4* 4* 4*  4  -3* -5  -5
What is love but a pre-lude to sor-row
-3*  4   4*    4*  4* 3*   4   -3*  -5
With a heart-break a-head for your goal
 -5 -5 7    7   7   -7
Here I go, now you know
 7   7  -6*  -7
Why I'm leav-ing
 7  -7   -7*    
Got the blues, 
 7   -5 -3* 4*   -3*   3  
What can I lose. Good-bye.

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