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SHRIMP BOATS (A Comin’ There’s Dancin’ Tonight)

by Jo Stafford · 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
SHRIMP BOATS
(A Comin’ There’s Dancin’ Tonight)
By: Paul Mason Howard & Paul Weston)
Jo Stafford
Key: F
Time: 3/4

-3  4  -3  3   -2   3 -3-2 -1    1
They go to sea with the eve-nin' tide
1    1   -2  -2  -2   3    -2    3   -3
And their wom-en folk wave their good-bye
4-3  -5* -5     5 -3   -5* -5
Ill sant vas... There they go
-2   -2   3   -2 -2  3     -2   -2  -2
While the Loos-ian-a moon floats on high
-2   -2   3   -2   3*  3   -2  -2  -2
And they wait for the day they can cry...

 -3    -2   -2 -2 -1 -2
Shrimp boats is a-com-in'
 3     -3  -2  -1   1
Their sails are in sight
 -3    -2   -2 -2 -1 -2
Shrimp boats is a-com-in'
  3     -3  -2  -1  -2
There's danc-in' to-night
 4    4    4  -5  5   -3  -5   5  -3  -5
Why don't-cha hur-ry, hur-ry, hur-ry home
-5*  -5*  -5* -6 -5*  -3  -5   5  -3  -5
Why don't-cha hur-ry, hur-ry, hur-ry home
  -3    -2   -2 -2 -1 -2
Shrimp boats is a-com-in', 
   3     -3  -2  -1  -2
there's danc-in' to-night
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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