Did Your Mother Come From Ireland

by Bing Crosby, Connie Francis · posted by waltp

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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

DID YOUR MOTHER COME FROM IRELAND
By: Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr
Bing Crosby, Connie Francis
Key: F

 4  -3*   -3 -3*  4    -3   3   -2
Did your moth-er come from Ire-land
  3    -3     -3*  -3   3  -2  2  1
‘Cos there's some-thing in you I-rish
 -1   2   -2  3   -3   -5
Will you tell me where you 
 4   -3   3  -2   3
get those I-rish eyes
 4 -3*  -3  -3*  4   -3   3  -2
and be-fore she left Kil-lar-ney
 3   -3  -3*  -3  3   -2   2    1
did your moth-er kiss the Blar-ney
 -1   2   -2   3   -3   -5   4
‘Cos your lit-tle touch of brogue 
-3    3   -2   -2
You can't dis-quise
-2 3  -3    3* -3 -3* -3  3
Oh I would-n’t be ro-manc-in'
-2 3  -3  3*  -3  -3*  -3  3
I can al-most see you danc-in’
 -2    3  -3  -1 -1  -1   -1
while the Ker-ry pi-pers play
  2   -2   3 -2*   3   -3  3   -2
shure and may-be we'll be shar-in' 
2  -2   3   -2*    3    -3  3   -2
in the sham-rock you'll be wear-in'
2  -2   3   3    3    3     3
on the next St. Pat-rick's Day
 4  -3*   -3 -3*  4    -3   3   -2
Did your moth-er come from Ire-land
  3    -3    -3*   -3   3  -2  2  1
‘Cos there's some-thing in you I-rish
-1   2   -2  -2 -6 -5    4    -3  -2   3 -2
and that bit of I-rish steals my heart a-way

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