Sugar Mountain ("A" harp)

by Neil Young · posted by CantBeat_CannedHeat

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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

I've only just started playing the harp so I'm far from an authority on tabs, but this is what I came up with on my A harp for this particular song just through playing by ear. Please suggest any corrections you think my tab could use. Cheers.

Intro (and chorus):

6  (6)  6   5      (5)       (5) 6  (5)  (4)
Oh  to live on    (opt.)     Su-gar Moun-tain

 6    6   6   6    6   6  (6)  6    (5)  (5)
With the bar-kers and the co-loured bal-loons

 6    6   (6)   6  5  (5)  (5) 6   (5) (4)
You can't be  twen-ty  on  Su-gar Moun-tain

 (4)     4    (4)   4  (4)    4
Though you're thin-kin that you're

(4)  4   (4)   5  (5)
Lea-vin there too soon

 4     (4)  4   (4)   6   5
You're lea-vin there too soon.

Verse 1: (tab for each verse is the same)

 4   (4)  5  5  5   5   (5)
It's so  noi-sy at the fair

(5)  6    (5)     5    (4)   5
But all you're friends are there

 4  (4)  5  5    5    5  (5) 
And the can-dy floss you had

(5)  (5)    6  (5)  5  (4)     5
And you're mot-her and you're dad

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