After The Ball

by Unknown · posted by TIN_MAN

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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  6  5  -6  5    6     5  -6   5    -7 
A little maiden climbed an old man's knee;

 -5    -6 -5 -7-5    -7  8 -8     5
Begged for a story, "Do, Uncle, please.

 5   6   5  -6  5    8  -9   8  8
Why are you single, why live alone--

-6   -7   7  8  6    -8  -7   6   7
Have you no babies, have you no home?"

 7 -8  7  -7   6     -6     -7   7 6
"I had a sweetheart years, years ago.

-6    -7  7   6    7   -6  -7    7    -8
Where she is now, pet, you will soon know.

 5   6   5  -6 5   8   -9   8  -6
List to the story I'll tell it all.

-6 -6 -7    7    8  6    -8 -7   6    7
I believed her faithless, after the ball."Chorus
8  9   8   7   -6 7 6   8 9    8   7   -6 -7
After the ball is over, after the break of morn.

-9-10 -9   8 -8   -8  -8   -8 8  -8  -7    6    9
After the dancers leaving; after the stars are gone,

8 9  8   7   -6  7  6   -6 -8    8   -9    8   -8
Many a heart is aching, if you could read them all.

9 -8 -8   -8    8   -9    8    6   -6-7   6   7
Many the hopes that have vanished, after the ball

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