The Name Game

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+: 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

THE NAME GAME
By: Lincoln Chase & Shirley Elliston
Key: F

-2  3*-3  -2
The name game
 4    4   
Shir-ley 
 -2  -2   -2  -2  1  -2  -2
Shir-ley Shir-ley bo bur-ley
1  -2 -2 -2 -2 1  -2  -2
Bo-na-na fa-na fo fir-ley
-2 -2 -1 -2  -2 
Fe fi mo mer-ley
 4    4
SHIR-LEY!

 4   4
Lin-coln
-2   -2  -2   -2  1  -2   -2
Lin-coln Lin-coln bo bin-coln
1  -2 -2 -2 -2 1  -2   -2
Bo-na-na fa-na fo fin-coln
-2 -2 -1 -2   -2 
Fe fi mo min-coln
 4   4
LIN-COLN!

 3*  -2 -2  -1 -2 -2
Come on ev-‘ry-bod-y
-2 -2 -2    -3   4  -3 4 -5
I say now let's play a game
-2 -2 -2 -2 -1   -2 -1   3*
I bet-cha I can make a rhyme
-2  -1 -2 -1 -2 -1   -2
Out of an-y-bod-y's name.
-2   -2   -2  -1* -2 -2   -3
The first let-ter of the name
-2  -2  -1  -2  -1 -2  -1   -2
I treat it like it was-n't there
-2  -2  3* -2 -2  3*  1  1  -1   -2  -1  -2
But  a "B" or an "F"  or an “M” will ap-pear
-2   -5  5 -3   -2  -2 -1 -2
And then I say “Bo” add a “B” 
 -2 -1 -2  -2   -3
Then I say the name
 -1  1  -2 -1 -2  -2 -2  -2
Then Bo-na-na fan-na and fo
-2   -2 -1 -2  -2   -2 -1  -2
And then I say the name a-gain
-2   -2 -1 -2  -2   -2 -1  -2
And then I say the name a-gain
 -2  -1 -2  -2 -2   3* 
With an "f" ver-y plain
 -2 -1 -2  -2 -2 -1 -2
Then a fee fi and a mo
-2   -2 -1 -2  -2   -2 -1  -2
And then I say the name a-gain
 -2  -2 3* -2   -2
With an M this time
-2   -1   -2 -1* -2-1* -2  
And there is-n't an-y name
-1* -2  -2    -2
That I can't rhyme.

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