Johnny Appleseed

by Kim Gannon and Walter Kent · posted by izakmo

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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

This is a song often sung by Mennonites before meals as a way of saying grace. Don't know where/when it originated.


Johnny Appleseed

6    6   -6     6    5   -4 4
Oh, the Lord's been good to me.

 4  5  4   5    -5  6
And so I thank the Lord

 6  -6  6  6   6    -6   6  6
For giving me the things I need:

 6  -6    6   6   -6   6   6  -6 5   4
The sun, and the rain and the apple seed;

4    4    5     4    5   -4 4
Oh, the Lord's been good to me.

 3   3  4  4  3  -3 4
Johnny Appleseed, Amen.


(Extra Verses)

Oh, and every seed I sow
Will grow into a tree.
And someday there'll be apples there
For everyone in the world to share.
Oh, the Lord is good to me.

Oh, here I am 'neath the blue, blue sky
Doing as I please.
Singing with my feathered friends
Humming with the bees.

I wake up every day,
As happy as can be,
Because I know that with His care
My apple trees, they will still be there.
The Lord's been good to me.

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