Blue Orchids

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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)

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Tab

BLUE ORCHIDS
By: Hoagy Carmichael
Key: F

1    -1   -1  4  -3*  1*  -3
I dreamed of two blue or-chids
 3   2   -2 -3   4   -6  -5
Two beau-ti-ful blue or-chids
 6    5     1   2  3  -3*  -3  4
One night while in my lone-ly room
1    -1   -1  4  -3*  1*  -3
I dreamed of two blue or-chids
3   2   -2  -3   4   -6
So full of love and light
 -5  6  2  -2* 3* -4   -6*
That I want-ed to pos-sess
 6   -5   5*   5
Each ten-der bloom
-3*  4   -5    -3*  -3
Then my dream took wings
 3     -2  -3  -5   -6     6
And through a thou-sand springs
 -5  4   1      1    2  3  -3* -3  4
Blue or-chids seemed in a world a-part
-3*  4  -5 -3* -5
But when I met you 
 4    -3*   -3   4   -6
Some-thing pale and blue
 -6    6   -5   -4   3
Came steal-ing from the 
 -2  -2  -5 -5   2
Mead-ows of my heart
1 -1  -1  4  -3*  1*  -3
I saw my two blue or-chids
3   2   -2 -3   4   -6  -5
My beau-ti-ful blue or-chids
 6     4    1   2   3  -3*   4   -3
Last night and what a sweet sur-prise
 3    3   -3*   -5 -6
When you looked at me
6   6    5   5  -3*
It was plain to see
 -3  -1  -1   4 -3*  -3   -2  3    -2
Blue or-chids on-ly bloom in your eyes

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