The Low Back'd Car

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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

THE LOW BACK’D CAR
James Joyce
Key: D
Time: 6/8

 4    4    5  5    6   -5 -4
When first I saw sweet Peg-gy,
  -3  4  5  6   6   6
'Twas on a mar-ket day;
5 -5   -5  -4  -4    5     5   4
A low-back car she drove, and sat
5  -5 -4  4   -3  4
Up-on a truss of hay;
 4   4    -5  -5  -6   -6    6    6
But when that hay was bloom-ing grass,
 4     4    -5    -5    -6   6
And deck'd with flow’rs of Spring,
4     4    7    7   -6-6  -6    6  6 -5
No flow'r was there that could com-pare
5   5   -4    4   -4  5  6...
To the bloom-ing girl I sing.
5... -4   4  -3” 3   4    4     4
As   she sat in her low-back'd car,
 5  -4  4  -3”  -4   -4  -4
The man at the turn-pike bar
 5  -5   6   -5   5   6
Nev-er ask'd for the toll,
-5   5     7    -7   -6   6...
But just rubb'd his auld poll
 5   -4    4  -3”  3   4    4     4
And look’d af-ter the low-back’d car.

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