Searchin'

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−: 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
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Tab

SEARCHIN’
By Jerry Lieber & Mike Stoller
The Coasters
Key: C


-5 -5*   6   6    -5 -5*   6   6
Gon-na find her.  Gon-na find her.
3  -3*   4     4    3 -3*    4     4
I been search-ing, uh huh, search-ing,
-5* -5*  -5*   -5* 4   -3 -5*-5-5*-5-5*-5
Oh yeah,search-ing ev-‘ry      which
4-3 56-5*67
a-  way.
-5* -5* 5  -5   -5*   -5*    -5*  -5*
Oh yeah,I been search-ing, search-ing,
-5*    -5* 4   -3 -5*-5-5*-5-5*-5 
Search-ing ev-‘ry      which 
4-3 56-5*67
a-  way.

3    3     3    -5   -5    -5  6
I'm like that North-west Mount-ie,
5    -3*  3     3    3 -21  -1*  1
You know I'll bring her in some day.
-5 -5*   6   6
Gon-na find her.

5     5   5 5   5  -3   4  4  -3  3
Well now if I have to swim a riv-er, 
4     4  4 -3 3
you know I will,
-3  4  4   4   4   4   4   4    3
And if I have to climb a mount-ain 
4    4   4 -3 3
you know I will.
-3   4   4    4   4
And if she's hid-ing 
4   4 -3  4   4   4  -5*
up on a blue-ber-ry hill,
-5*-5*-5* -5*  -5*-5*
Am  I gon-na find her, 
4       -3 -5*-5-5*-5-5*-5 
child, you     know 
-5* 6 7 
I   will.

5     5  5     -5*  -5*    -5*  -5*
Cause I been search-ing, search-ing,
-5*    -5*  4  -3 -5*-5-5*-5-5*-5 
Search-ing ev-‘ry      which 
5 6-5*67
a- way. 

3     3    3    -5   -5    -5   6
I'm like that North-west Mount-ie,
4    -3*   3    3    3 -21  -1*  1
You know I'll bring her in some day.
-5 -5*   6   6
Gon-na find her.

4     4    4    4    4  
Well now Sher-lock Holmes,
4     4    -3  4    4      4   4 -33
Sam Spade got noth-ing, child, on me.
4     4    4   4     4   4   4
Ser-geant Fri-day, char-lie Chan, 
-3   4   4    5  -33
and Bos-ton Black-ie.
-3  4   4    4     4    4   4
No mat-ter where she's hid-ing, 
4      4  -3   4   4 -5*-5*
she's gon-na hear me com-in
4    4  4   -5*  -5*   -5*  -5*  -5*
I'm gon-na walk right down that street,
5     8   -7*   7    7
Like Bull-dog Drum-mond 
5      5  5     -5*  -5*
‘cause I been search-ing,
-5*    -5* 4   -3 -5*-5-5*-5-5*-5       
search-ing ev-‘ry     which 
4-3 46-567
a-   way. 
5    -3*  3     3    3 -21  -1*  1
You know I'll bring her in some day. 
-5 -5*   6   6
Gon-na find her. 
-5 -5*   6   6
Gon-na find her.

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