Sing a Song a Sixpence

by Unknown · posted by dino

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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  -5  5  -5   6  7     
Sing a song of sixpence, 

5 -5 5   -4   5  -5
a pocket full of rye.

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Four and twenty blackbirds 

 6-5    5-5  6
baked in a pie.

  6  -5   5  -5   6  7   
When the pie was opened, 

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the birds began to sing.

 6 -5   5  -5  6  7    7  
Wasn't that a dainty dish 

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to set before the king?

The king was in his counting house counting out his money.
The queen was in the parlor eating bread and honey.
The maid was in the garden hanging out her clothes,
When up came the blackbird and pecked off her nose.

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