Rockin' Chair

by The Mills Brothers, Louis Armstrong · posted by WaltP

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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

ROCKIN’ CHAIR
By Hoagy Carmichael
The Mill Brothers, Louis Armstrong
Key: Eb

3    3   3*    -3*   -2  -2
Old rock-in’ chair's got me, 
3    3* -3* -1*
cane by my side, 
3     3* -3*   3*   3
Fetch me that gin, son, 
-2   -2 -2   -2   -3*
'fore I tan your hide. 
3      3   -2   -1*  3  3
Can't get from this ca-bin, 
4     -5  -3*
Goin' no-where 
-1*  -1* -2  -2*  -2  -1*
Just sit me here grab-bin' 
-1* -2   3      3    3*   -3 -3*   -1*
at the flies ‘round this rock-in’ chair 

-3* -3*  3*  -2* -3*-2*-3*
My dear old aunt Har-ri-et, 
-3* -3* 3*  3 -3*
in Heav-en she be, 
4    4    -5  -3* -3 3
Send me sweet cha-ri-ot, 
-1* -2   3  3    3     3  -2 -1* -2  
for the end of these trou-ble I see 
3     3  3*   -3*   -2  -2
Old rock-in’ chair gits it, 
3      3    3* -3* -1*
Judge-ment day is here 
3       3* -3* -1* -1*  -1*  
Chained to my rock-in’ chair. 

REPEAT

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