China Doll

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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

6   -6   6   5  4   7  -8   7   -6 -5
I'm tired of crying and all your lying.

7      7  -6   6 5   5  5-4   -4
That's why I'm buying a china doll.

6   6-6  6   5 4    7    7-8   7  -6-5
Her eyes are bluer, her faults are fewer,

7    7   -6  6 5    4  -34-4   4
Her lips are truer; my china doll.

7  -7 -7   -7  7  -8  7  -8
I'd rather have a doll of clay

6   7   7    7  -8   8
That I could call my own,

7   -6 -6   -7    -7  -8    -7
Than someone else just like you

-7  -6  -7   -6   6
With a heart of stone.

  6    -6 6   565  4
She'll never leave me.

7     -8  7-67-6  -5

 7     7 -6    6    5
She'll never grieve me,

4 -34-4   4
My china doll.

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