Paddlin' Madelin' Home

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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

PADDLIN’ MADELIN’ HOME
By Harry Woods
Spike Jones
Key: C

6      -6  -6*  7  -7  7  -7  7 -7    -7
Cause when I'm pad-dl-in' Ma-de-lin' home
7    6    5  -5  6  -5  6  -5  6    6
Gee when I'm pad-dl-in' Ma-de-lin' home
-5    5   -4   -5  -6   -7
First I drift with the tide 
-7    -7   7   6    5
Then pull for the shore
5* -5 -6*  7   -7  -8   8  -9  -8   -7   7  
I hug her and kiss her and pad-dle some more,
6   -6  -6*  7  -7  7  -7 7  -7    -7
Then I keep pad-dl-in' Ma-de-lin' home
7   6  5  -5  6  -5    6     -5  6   6
Un-til I find a spot where we're a-lone
5   -5   6   5   6   7 6  7  8   -7   8  -9
Oh! she nev-er says no so I kiss her and go,
8   -7  8  -7  7 -7
Pad-dl-in' Ma-de-lin’, 
8        8   -7 7  -7 
Sweet, sweet Ma-de-lin’, 
8   -7  8  -7  7 -7    8
Pad-dl-in' Ma-de-lin’ home.

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