The Song Is You

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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

THE SONG IS YOU
W: Oscar Hammerstein
M: Jerome Kern
From: “Music In The Air”
Frank Sinatra
key: C


-4  4  4  -4   -4  4  4   -4 -2
I hear mu-sic when I look at you
-3 -3  3*  3    3   -3
A beau-ti-ful theme of 
-3  3    3  -3 -3 3   -1
Ev-‘ry dream I ev-er knew
 -2   -2 -1* 2    3    2  -2  2   3
Down deep in my heart, I hear it play
-1 2   -1  -2     1    -1  1  2
I feel it start, then melt a-way
-4 4   4  -4   -4  4   4    -4   -2
I hear mu-sic when I touch your hand
-3 -3  3*  3   3 -3 -3
A beau-ti-ful mel-o-dy 
 3    3   -3  -3   3   -1
From some en-chant-ed land
 -2   -2 -1* 2    3    2  -2  2  -3
Down deep in my heart, I hear it say
3   -3   3   4 
Is this the day?

2 -4 -4   -4   -4    -4   -4  -3   -3
I a-lone have heard this love-ly strain
2 -5*-5* -5*   -5*   -5* -5*  5*   5*
I a-lone have heard this glad re-frain
 -1* -4 3* -1* -2*-2 2   -1* -4 3*
Must it be for-ev-er in-side of me
-1*  -1* -1*-1* -2*-2*
Why can't I let it go? 
-2*  -2* -2* 3* -4   -4
Why can't I let you know?
-4    -4 -4 -4   4   4
Why can't I let you know 
-4   -4  4    4    -4    -6
the song my heart would sing?
 -3   -3  3*  3   3   -3 -3
That beau-ti-ful rhap-so-dy 
3   3   -3   -3    3    4
of love and youth and spring
-2  -2 -1* 2    3     2   -2    2   -3
The mu-sic is sweet, the words are true
 3   -3  3   4
The song is you

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