Help Me

by Sonny Boy Williamson / Rice Miller · posted by chibluesteve

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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)

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Tab

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-6  -6  -6  7   -6 
You got to help me
-10 9   8  8  -8  7  -6 -6  
I can't do it all by myself
 9   9  9   9   7   7  7  
You got to help me, baby
9  -9   -9 -8  7  7  -6 -6  
I can't do it all by myself
9     9   9  9   9     9   9   8   8   
You know if you don't help me darling
 9    8   -8   8  -8 7   -6 -6  6  -6 
I'll have to find myself somebody else

-6 -6  -6  -6 7 -6
I may have to wash
-6 -6  -6  -6  5
I may have to sew
-6 -6  -6  -6  8
I may have to cook
7  -6    7  -6   -6 
I might mop the floor
 6   6   7   7 -6 -6
But you help me babe
 9   9   9   9   9     9   9   8  8
You know if you don't help me darling
 9    8   -8  7  -6 -6  6  -6
I'll find myself somebody else

 -6 -6  7    -6   -6   5   5
When I walk, you walk with me
 -6 -6  7     8   7   -6 -6 
When I talk, you talk to me
7   -7   9  -9   8  8   8  7  -6 -6
Oh babe, I can't do it all by myself
 9   9   9   9   9     9   9   8  8
You know if you don't help me darling
 9    8   -8  8   -8 7   -6 -6 6  -6
I'll have to find myself somebody else
 7   -6   7   -6 -6 -7
Help me, help me darlin'

-10  -10  -10 -10
Bring my nightshirt
-10 8   -8   8  8    7
Put on your morning gown
 -9   -9 -9  -9   -8  
Bring me my nightshirt
 -8 -8  -8   7  7    -6
Put on your morning gown
 8  8  8   9    10   10   10 -10 
Darlin I don't feel like sleepin
-10 8   8    8   8 -8   8 
But I feel like lying down

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