The Wild Colonial Boys

by Australian 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

THE WILD COLONIAL BOYS
Australian folk song
Key: G

  3    4  4  4   4  4   4     4
There was a wild co-lo-nial youth
 4   -4   4  -3   4   -4
Jack Doo-lan was his name
5-5  5   4   4   4   4   4
Of poor but hon-est par-ents
4   4   -3  3   3  -3”  -3’
He was born in Cas-tle-maine
4  -3” -2” -2”  3   -3” -3  4
He was his fa-ther’s on-ly hope
-3”  3   -2”  2  -2” 3
His moth-er’s on—ly joy
 3   -3” -2” -2”   3  -3”  -3
The pride of both his par-ents
 4 -3-3” -4  4  -3  4    4
Was the wild co-lo-nial boy
 6     5  -5  6    7
Come, all my hear-ties
  3    -5    5   -4   5    -5
We’ll range the moun-tain side
3   -5  5  -4  5    -5   3
To-geth-er we will plun-der
3   -5  5  -4  4    -4
To-geth-er we will ride
  3     6  -5  5   -5   6   4
We’ll scour a-long the val-leys
 3  -5   5   -4   5   -5
And gal-lop o’er the plains
6    6   -6  6   -5  5  -5 6
We scorn to live in sla-ve-ry
  4    5    -4  4 -3    4
Bound down with i-ron chains

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