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You Can't Make Old Friends

by Kenny Rogers (Duet with Dolly Parton) · posted by Kocot

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Blow note
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Draw note
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Half-step bend
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Two half-step bend
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Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
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Tab
 5    6   6 6   -5   -5    5 -44
What will I do when you're gone?

  5   -4 4   -4  4   6   5-44
Who's gonna tell me the truth?

  5    6 5   6  5   5   -6 6   6  54
Who's gonna finish the stories I start,

 4  -4   5   -4 4  4
The way you always do?


 5    6  6 5    -6   6   6  5-44
When somebody knocks at the door,

 -6 -6   6   -5   5 -44
Someone new walks in.__

5  6    -6    5   -6     6   5-44 
I will smile and shake their hands,

 4   4    5    -4   4     4
But you can't make old friends.

Chorus:
 4    5    6   7 -6 6    6
You can't make old___ friends.

  5    6   -6 6 5-44  4-4-4
Can't make old______ friends.

4  -4  5   6  -6    6   -6   6   5-44
It was me and you since way back when,

 4   5    5    -4   4     4
But you can't make old friends.



 5   6   6 -6 6  5    5   5  -55-44
How will I sing when you are gone?

  4   -4   5   -4 4  -4   5
Cause it won't sound the same.

  5     6   -6 5    6   -6 6 -5   5
Who'll join in on those harmony parts,

 4   5 -4 4  -4  5-44
When I call your name?


Chorus


 7     7   7 -66 -6 6   5   6
When Saint Peter opens the gate,

 6   7   7    7  -6  6 5-45 
And you come walking in,___

 5   6   -6     6    -6  6  -6  5-44 
I'll be there, just waiting for you,

5-45   5    5   -4 4  4  5 -4 4
Cause you can't make old friends.

(Spoken) Cause you can't make old friends.


 5    6  -6  5   6  -6 6   6  -6 5-44   
When I'm out on the stage all alone,

 3 -3" 4   -3"  -4 4   5 5
And I hear the music begin.

5   6   -6   6   -6   6   6  5-44
We all know the show must go on,

 4   5    5    -4   4     4
But you can't make old friends.

56 -6 -6 6 6 5 5-44
No...______________


Chorus


 5   6  -6  6   6   6 7 -6  6 5-44
You and me will be together again.

(Spoken) Cause we both know, we will still be old friends.

-3"   4    -4   5   -4 4
You can't make old friends.

 5   6   6   -6   -3" 4  -4 4
Not the way we've always been.
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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