How Can I Keep From Singing?

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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

My first attempt at tabbing:


HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING?

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My life flows on in endless song;

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Above earth’s lamentation

3   4  -4   5      5    -4   5   4
I hear the sweet though far off hymn

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That hails a new creation:

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Through all the tumult and the strife

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I hear the music ringing;

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It finds an echo in my soul—

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How can I keep from singing?

What though my joys and comforts die?
The Lord my Savior liveth;
What though the darkness gather round!
Songs in the night He giveth:
No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that refuge clinging;
Since Christ is Lord of Heav’n and earth,
How can I keep from singing?

I lift mine eyes; the cloud grows thin;
I see the blue above it;
And day by day this pathway smoothes
Since first I learned to love it:
The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
A fountain ever springing:
All things are mine since I am His—
How can I keep from singing?

Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound