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You're A Builder Upper

by Patti Page · 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
YOU’RE A BUILDER UPPER
W: Ira Gershwin & E.Y. Harburg
M: Harold Arlen
Patti Page
Key: Eb

-5*   7   -5* 7  -5*  7 -5* 7  7
When you want to you are a-ble to
-5*  7  -5*   7   -5*   7  -7*  7*
Make me feel that I’m Clark Ga-ble
-7*   -7*  -7* -9*  7  -7* -7* -5* 
Then, next min-ute you make me feel
-5*  -7*  -5*   -7* -7* -5*
I’m some-thing from the zoo
 
 -5*   7  -5*  7  -5*    7    -5*  7
First you warm up then you’re dis-tant
-5* -5* 7   7 -5*  7 -5*  7  -7*  7*
Nev-er knew a girl so in-con-sis-tent
 7  7  7   8   6   7    7    6
I’m a big shot at half past one
7 7   6  7  7   6
A so-and-so by two
 -6  -6 -6   -6  -6  -6* -6*  -6*
Heav-en for-give you for your sins
-6*  -6* -6 -6  8    8    8  8
Keep-ing me on need-les and pins

 -7*   7  -7*  7 -7* -7*
You’re a build-er up-per
7  -6  -5*  7   7 -5* -5  5  -5* -5*
A break-er down-er a hold-er out-er
 5  -3* 5 -5* 7  -9 9
And I’m a giv-er in-er
-9* -9*  7*   7* 7* 8  8  8   8
Sad but true I’m a sap-a-roo too
-6  -6  -6  -6 -6 -6  -6-7*-7* -7*  -7*8
Tak-ing it from a tak-er o-ver like you
 -7*   7    -7*   7 -7*-7*
Don’t know where I’m at-a
 7   -6 -5* 7   7 -5*  -5  5 -5* -5*
I’m just a this-a then I’m a that-a
5 -3* 5 -5*  7   -9  9
A tak-er on the chin-er
-9*-9*7*  7*  7* 8   8 8  7
My my my what a weak-y am I 
7   -5*  7 -5* 7 -5*
To love you as I do
 -6   7   -5*  -6  7 7   7
Just when I’m read-y to sob
-5*  -6  7  7   7
You hand me a throb
-5* -6  7    7* -7* -8  8*-9* -8
And ev-‘ry thing is hun-ky do-ry
-7*   -9*  7  -9  8
And that’s my sto-ry
-6 -6  -6   -6
o-pen your arms 
-6  -6 -6   -7*  -7* -7*   -7* 8
And I’m a stooge for your charms
  -7*  7  -7*  7 -7* -7*
You’re a build-er up-per
7  -6  -5*  7   7 -5* -5  5  -5*-5*
A break-er down-er a hold-er out-er
 5  -3* 5 -5* 7  -9  9
And I’m a giv-er in-er
-9* -9*  7*  7* -7*-7* 8 -9
Sad but true I love it I do
-9*-9*  9   9  7* 7   7*  -7 -7*-7*
Be-ing bro-ken by a build-er up-per
-7*  -7*8
Like you
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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