Paris Blues

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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

PARIS BLUES
W: Billy Strayhorn, Harold Flender
M: Duke Ellington
Key: D

 5*   -8  -7  5*    5*   -8  -7   -9
Left bank ca-fes, Stroll-in’ the quays,
 -8   -5  -6   -4   -5  6   -6*
Watch-ing the boats on the Seine
 -6*  -7 -8  8*
Come back a-gain.
 -8   -7  -5   -6 -5  6
Where is that girl I met,
-8   -7   -5   -6  -5  6   -8
The girl that made me get those
-7 -6*  -6   -5   8  -7
Par-is blues and won-der?

 5*  -8   -7    5*
Sip-ping cham-pagne
5* -8  -7   -9  -8  -5  -6
A-long the main bou-le-vards.
-4  -5  6   -6*   -6*  -7   -8   8*
She was so fine, just like that wine.
-8  -7  -5 -6  -5   6
Now ev-'ry day is black.
  -8     -7  -5    -6  -5   6
Please, some-one, send her back
-8 -7-6*  -6   -5    8  -7  -7...
So I can lose those Par-is blues. 

-9  -6  8  -8  6  -6*
Why did I have to roam?
-9 -6 8   -8  6  -6*
I was so much at home,
-7  6   -8  -7  7  -9*
Ev-'ry love-ly eve-ning
10 -8-9 -5 -7 -6*
In a co-zy ca-fe

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