Jimmy Brown The Newsboy (chrom)

by Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Monroe, Roger Miller, Skeeter Davis · 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

JIMMY BROWN THE NEWSBOY chrom
By: A.P. Carter 
Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Monroe, 
Roger Miller, Skeeter Davis
Key: F 

-2 -2  -2   -3   4  -5  5    5
I sell the morn-ing pa-pers sir  
5   -3  5  -3  3    3
my name is Jim-my Brown 
 3   1   1   2  3  -3  -3 -3*
Most ev-‘ry-bod-y knows I am  
-3   -3   3  2  -2   -2
the news-boy of the town 

-3   3    -2  -2  -3  4    -5  -5   5
You will hear me yell-in' Morn-ing Star  
5  5 -3  5  -3* -3    3
As I run a-long the street 
3  1   1   2  3  -3 -3  -3*
I have no hat up-on my head  
-3*  -3  3  2  2   -2
no shoes up-on my feet 

-2  -2  -3   4  -5 -5  5
Nev-er mind sir how I look  
  5    -3  5 -3* -3    3
don't look at me and frown 
3  1    1   2    3  -3  -3  -3*
I sell the morn-ing pa-pers sir  
-3* -3  3   2  2   -2
my name is Jim-my Brown 

-3  -2 -2   -3   4  -5  -5   5
I'm aw-ful cold and hun-gry sir  
-3   -3     5   -3* -3   3
my clothes are torn and thin 
3  1   1  1  2    3    -3   -3  -3*
I wan-der a-bout from place to place  
-3* -3 3    2   2  -2
my dai-ly bread to win 

-3  -2  -2  -3  4  -5   -5   5
My fath-er died a drunk-ard sir  
 -3   -3   5  -3*  -3  3
I've heard my moth-er say 
 3  1 1   2   3    -3  -3 -3*
and I am help-in' moth-er sir  
4 -3*  -3  3  2  2  -2
as I journ-ey on my way 

-3  -2  -2 -3  4    -5   -5  5
My moth-er al-ways tells me sir  
 5    -3   5   5 -3*  -3*  -3  3
I've noth-ing in the world to lose 
 3    1  1   2   3   -3  -3 -3*
I'll get a place in heav-en sir  
-3* -3   3   2   2   -2
to sell the Gos-pel News 

REPEAT

Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound