A Little Rumba Numba

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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

A LITTLE RUMBA NUMBA
By: Cole Porter
From: “Let’s Face It”
Key: C

1 -1   1   2  1  -1  2
A lit-tle rum-ba num-ba
 1   -1  2  -2 2  -1
Down Ar-gen-ti-na way
 -1  2  -1  -2  -1  2   -2
Made me for-get to slum-ba
-2    3   -3  -4    -3    3
As through a dance she’d sway
 -3  -4   -4  -3    3  -2* 3
Sing-ing hear the stars a-bove
 -3  -4  4 -3*4-3* 3* -1*-1 3
Sing-ing ay  ay    ay ay ay ay
4 -3*-5*-1* -1 2-1 1
Ay ay ay ay    ay

 4   -5   5  -5  5  -3  5
That lit-tle rum-ba num-ba
5  -5  5  -5   5    -4
Is now my dar-ling wife
4 -3*4-3*3* -1* -1 3  4
Ay  ay   ay  ay ay ay ay
-3*-5*-1* -1-1*-1 1
Ay ay  ay  ay ay ay

 1   -1   1   2  1  -1  2
That lit-tle rum-ba num-ba
 2 -3  3   2   -2
And I fell in love
 -1    2   -1   -2    -1    2   -2
That while the world would slum-ba
 -2  -4     4   -4  4  -4  -2  -4
We’d and though we nev-er slum-ba
-1  2  -2  -3  3   3
We lead a love-ly life
 -3  -4  4 -3*4-3* 3* -1* -1 3
Sing-ing Ay  ay    ay ay  ay ay
4 -3* -6 -5* 6 -56-5 5
Ay ay ay ay  ay  ay  ay
5 -3  5  -3 5  -3 5 -55-5 7
Ay ay ay ay ay ay ay  ay ay

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