Basin Street Blues

by Louis Armstrong/ Sam Cooke · posted by aussie

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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      5    5  -7 5
Basin Street, is the street, where the elite
 -7-7   -6    5  5    5  5     5   6   5
Always meet, in New Orleans, Lan` of dreams
   6    -8-8   7   7   -7  -7   -6  -6   7   7
You`ll never know how nice it seems or just how
 -7  -7  -6 -6   6
much it really means.
  5   5  5  -7   -7 -6   5     5 -7     -6
Glad to be, yes sir-ee where welcome`s free, 
 -5  -5  5     5  5  -7  -6    5  6 5    -4
dear to me, where I can lose, My Basin Street
  4
Blues

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