The Garbage Men

by Martin Wesley Smith · posted by TIN_MAN

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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

The Garbage Men		martin Wesley smith




 -4  5   6    5   -6  6    -5  -6  -6   4  4   4
Col-lec-ting the gar-bage with a clank and a clink

-4  5  6   5   -6  6    -5   5    -4    -4   6
We emp-ty the rub-bish bins al-though they stink

-4   5    6   5    6   6  6    -6  7  -6   7
We throw all the muck on the back of the truck

 -6   -6  6    6   6
Were the gar-bage men 

 -4  5   6    5   -6  6    -5  6   -3   4  4   4
Col-lec-ting the gar-bage with a clank and a clink

  -4     5  6   5  -6 6 -5 5  -4 -4  -4   6
There’s lou-ie and Ro-me-o & ed-die and frank

 -4   5   6    5  -6  6  -5  6
From bot-tles to rot-ten ap-ples 

-5 4    4    4
ev-ry-thing goes

 -6   -6   -6    6     6    7
Hold your nose watch your toes

 -6   -6  7   -6   4
Were the gar-bage men

-6  -6   -6   -6   -6  -6 -6 -6 -6
On the truck when you emp-ty a bin

 6   -6  -6 6   6   -6   
You need a lit-tle luck 

 6  6   -6    -6  -6
so you don’t fall in (YUCK)


 -6  -6   6   -6  -6  -6 6   -6
You grab the lid give it a wrench

 -6   -6  6  
When you do ooh what a stench

  5    6   5    5    6  6  -6  7  7   7
Clank-ing and clink-ing we go on our way 

   5    6   5    5    6  6  -6  7
Clink-ing a clank-ing we go all day

 -4  -4  5  6   5    6    6  6    -6  7  7
Then we emp-ty the truck of our load of muck

 -6   -5    6    6     6   7
Hold your nose watch your toes

-6   -6  7   -6   4
Were the gar-bage men

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