Second Hand Rose

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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

SECOND HAND ROSE
W: Grant Clark
M: James F. Hanley


Intro: Play in which ever octave you choose
 2 -2 -3 4 6 -5 
 1* -1 -2 4 -3 3
 3 -2 -3 4 6 -5
       

I’m wear-ing sec-ond hand hats
5    -6   -7  8  -8  -7*   -7 (5 -5 -6)
Sec-ond hand clothes
-7   7*  7     -6 (5* -5 6)
That’s why they call me
-6      6  -5*    6  -7*
Sec-ond hand rose
-7* -7   7*   -7

Ev-en our pi-an-o in the par-lor
5  -5 -6  -5 5 -5 -6 -7   8   6
Fa-ther bought for ten cents
-5   6    7    6   -5   6
on the dol-lar
7  -7* -9  -7
Sec-ond hand pearls
8   -8   -7*   -7
I’m wear-ing sec-ond hand curls
5    -5  -6   -7  7*  7    -6
I nev-er get a sin-gle thing that’s new
-6 7  -6 -7 -6  7  -6   -7    -6     7
Ev-en jake, the plumb-er, 
-7* 7  -7    7   -7*  7
he’s the man I a-dore
-7    7  -7* 7 -7 7
Had the nerve to tell me 
-7  -6    7   -6  -7  -6
He’s been mar-ried be-fore!
7     -6   -7  -6  7   -6  
Ev-‘ry-one knows that I’m just
8   -8 -7*  -7    5   -5   -6
Sec-ond hand rose
-7   7*  7    -6
From sec-ond av-e-nue!
-6    -9  -5 6 -7 -6 
(-89-9-89-10 -2)
Anything in ( ) are optional, 
I just like them.

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