The Letter

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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

Play: verse, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse. After the 4th verse, repeat "My baby just wrote me a letter."

Verse
  -3'   -3' -3'  -3' -3' -3'  4  4  -3'
Gimme    a  tick-et  for an  aer-o-plane

  4    4    4  4    4  4  4     -3'
Ain't got time to take a fast train

  5  5   5    5  -4 4   5  5 5  5   -4 4
Lone-ly days are gone, I'm a-go-in' home

2  -3"'   2   2   -3"' -3' -3' 4  -3'
My ba-   by just wrote me   a let-ter

Chorus
 4   -4    5   5  5 -4  -4
Well she wrote me a let-ter

 -4   -4   -5   -5   -5    
Said  she could-n't live 

 5   4  4   5-4  -44-4
with-out me  no   more

 5   5   5  -4-  4    -4  -4
Lis-ten mis-ter can't you see

-4 -5  -5 -5   5   5
I  got to get back to  

4  4  5   -4  -44-4
my ba-by once  more

5-4  5
Any way

Verse 2
I don't care how much noney I gotta spend
Got to get back to my baby again
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
My baby just wrote me a letter

Verse 3 and 4 same as verse 1

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