Twenty-Six Miles

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+: 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

TWENTY-SIX MILES

7     7  7    -6 -6  -4   -4   6
Twen-ty-six miles a-cross the sea
7   7   7  7 -6 -6 -6 -6 -4  -4   -4 6
San-ta Cat-a-li-na is a-wait-in' for me
7    7  7  7 -6 -6   -6 -4   -4 6  6    4  
San-ta Cat-a-li-na, the is-land of ro-mance,
7   -6    5   -4    -4   6
Ro-mance, ro-mance, ro-mance

verse
Water all around it everywhere
Tropical trees and the salty air
But for me the thing that's a-waitin' there-romance
refrain 1
-4    -4  -6   -6    6  -6  6   5   -4  4 
Seems so dist-ant, twen-ty-six miles a-way
-4   -4  -4 -4   -6 6  -6  6
Rest-in' in the wat-er se-rene
4     4   -4  -6  -6  6  -6  6   5  6   
I'd work for any-one, ev-en the Nav-y
-6      7   7   7  7 -7  -6    6
Who’d float me to my is-land dream

verse
Twenty- six miles, so near yet far
I'd swim with just some water-wings and my guitar
I could leave the wings but 
I'll need the guitar for romance, 
romance, romance, romance

Twenty- six miles across the sea
Santa Catalina is a-waitin' for me
Santa Catalina, the island of romance

refrain 2
A tropical heaven out in the ocean
Covered with trees and girls
If I have to swim, I'll do it forever
Till I'm gazin' on those island pearls

Forty kilometers in a leaky old boat
Any old thing that'll stay afloat
When we arrive we'll all promote romance, romance, romance, romance

Twenty- six miles across the sea
Santa Catalina is a-waitin' for me
Santa Catalina, the island of romance, romance, romance, romance

Twenty- six miles across the sea
Santa Catalina is a-waitin' for me

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