MacArthur Park

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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)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

   5    5   5 5   -5 5   -4  4    5
Spring was never waiting for us girl
 5  -5  5   -4   4 -4 -4 -4  -4  -4   4  -3  b-3
It ran one step ahead as we followed in the dance
b-3  5   5   5  5   -5 5  -4  4      5
Between the parted pages and were pressed
 5  -5     5   -4  4  -4-4  -4 -4  -4 -4   4
in love`s hot fevered iron like a striped pair
-3  b-3
of pants
CHORUS
 3 -3  -3    -3  -3  4 -3  b-3  3   -3
MacArthur`s Park is melting in the dark
-3   -3   4    -3   b-3 3  -4  5   -5
All the sweet green icing flowing down
 5    5   5    5   -5   5  -4  4    5
Some-one left the cake out in the rain
5  b6     6     6  6 b6   -6   6
I don`t think that I can take it
   5  -5    6   6   6  b6  -6   6
`Cause it took so long to bake it
 5   -5   6 6    6    6   -6 6  -6-7     7   -8
And I`ll never have that recipe again   Oh   No

I recall a yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave on the ground around your knees
The birds like tender babies in your hands
and the old man playing chequers by the trees

PLAY CHORUS

  5     5   5  5 5-4   4   -4   5
There will be another song for me 
-4  4  -4    5   4
For I will sing it
 -4    -4  -4 -4-4 4    -3   4  -4
There will be another dream for me
  4  -3    4  -4 3  3 4
Some-one will bring it
5  6     -6  -6   -6    -6   -6   -6
I will drink the wine while it`s warm
-6   -6-6  -6  -6  -6   -5   6-5   5  -5   6
and never let you catch me looking at the sun
 5  -5-5  -5  -5  -5 5-4  -4  5  -5
And after all the loves   of my life
 5 5   5   5  5-4 4  4 -4  5    -5      5   -4
After all the loves of my life you`ll still be
 4   -4
the one
4  -4   5    5   5  -4 4 -4   5   -4  4  -4
I will take my life into my hands and I will 
5-4 4  4-4
use    it
-4 -4   -4  -4  -4  4  -3   4    -4   4 -3  4
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will
-4 3 3 4
lose it
5   6   -6  -6    -6    -6 -6 -6 -6
I will have the things that I desire
-6  -6  -7 -6    6    -5    6 -5  5  -5  6
And my passion flows like rivers to the sky
 5   -5-5 -5   -5   -5  -4  5  -5
And after all the loves of my life
-5  5 5   5   5    5    4 -4  5
Oh after all the loves of my life
 -5  5   -4  -4  4   -4
I`ll be thinking of you
-4   -4 4 -3   5~~~~~
And wondering why~~~~~~

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