King Creole

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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


 -4     5  6   6  6    6  6
There's a man in new Orleans
 -4   5    6    6   b-7
Who plays rock and roll
-4   5  6 6    6
He's a guitar man
 5  -4   6    6    6
With a great big soul
-4   6    6  6  6
He lays down a beat
 5  -4  6   6  b-7
Like a ton of coal
-4  6    6  6   -7   7  -8  -8  6
He goes by the name of king creole
CHORUS
  6  b-7  -7    7    b-7    6
You know he's gone, gone, gone
b-7 b-7    6  5  6  6   6  5  6
Jumpin   like a catfish on a pole
 5    6   6   -6     -5    -4
You know he's gone, gone, gone
b-7 b-7  5   6   b-7  6
Hip shaking king creole

When the king starts to do it
It's as good as done
He holds his guitar
Like a tommy gun
He starts to growl
From way down in his throat
He bends a string
And that's all she wrote

Well, he sings a song about a crawdad hole
He sings a song about a jelly roll
He sings a song about pork and greens
He sings some blues about new orleans

Well, he plays something evil
Then he plays something sweet
No matter what he plays
You got to get up on your feet

When he gets the rockin fever
Baby, heaven sakes
He don't stop playin
Till his guitar breaks

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