Fun In A Boarding House

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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

FUN IN A BOARDING HOUSE
Trad. folk
Key: D
Time: 2/4

-1 -2*-2*-2* 2   -1 -1 -2*  -3   -3
I rent-ed a room in a board-ing house
 -3 -3  -4    3 -2* 2   -1   
It’s a shame and a dis-grace
 -3   -5  4*  -4   -3   -4
I’ll pack my trunk and leave
 -3  3 -2*  -4  2   2 -2*   2
When I can find an-oth-er place
-33 -2* -3 -3   -3    -3
You nev-er saw such sights
 -3    3  -2*  -3  -3   -3   -3
Since the day that you were born
-3 -3 -2*  2     -1   2  -2*  3
A lot of tramps came yes-ter-day
 3   -3   3    -2*  2    -1
And more will come this morn
  -3    3  -2*  -3   -3   -3   -3
There’s an old maid lives up stairs
-3  3  -2*  -3   -3  -3  -3  
And a dude that puts on airs
 -3   -5    4*    -4   -3
Next door there’s two that
  3*   2   -2*  3  -3
Fight like cat and dog
-3  3   -2*  -3  -3 -3  -3
In the room next me but one
  -3    3 -2*  -3  -3  -3  -3
There’s a fid-dler and his son
  -3     -4   -5   4* -4   -3
They’re teach-ing two old maids
3   -2*  2  -1
To dance a clog

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