Ships w/Sails

by The Doors (post Morrison) · posted by gene

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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)

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Tab


  6     7   -7    -7 7    -7  7  -8   6
Well, you asked   how    much I love you

 6   7  -8    -8  -8 -7   7  -7   -8
Why do ships with sails love the wind?

 6    7  -7   7- 7     -7    7  -8  6
And will I    be      think-ing of you

6    7 -8 -8  -8  -7    7  -7 -8
Will I e-ver pass this way a-gain?

  5  -5 <-5 6  <-5   -5   5
I'll be re-turn-ing some-day

-5  5  -5 -3
Un-till then

  -7    8    -9  -9 -9 8  10   -7 
Please don't ask me my di-rec-tion

-7  8    10   10 10 -9   8  -9  10
Let my tracks be bur-ied in the sea

  -7   8 - 9   -9   -9 8  10  -7
'Cause to wan-der's my in-fec-tion

  -7   9   10   10     10  -9   9   -9 10
'Till the four winds bring you back to me

 <-9   <-9   <8  <-9 <8 -8
Don't count your me-mor ies

 -9   -9 -9 <8  -8 <8  -9
Think of me as just a dream

-10  -10  -10 -10 10 -9 -10  10
Just like this me-lo-dy  I  sing

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