Fairy Tale of New York (chromatic)

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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

For Anl and others, I did not have the music score for this so I have cribbed it from Pagan's version 2

slow tempo

-3 -3   -5  -4<   6   -5  -9  9<   9<   -8
It was christmas eve babe In the drunk tank
-8  9< -9   -7 -6< -6<   -5   7 -6< -6< 6   6
an old man said to me "won't see an-oth-er one
      -3  -5  4<  6  -5  -5         
     and then he sang a song
      -9  -9   9<  9<  -8  -8 
     the rare old mountain dew
-8  9<   -9  -7 -6<-6< -5    7    -6< 6 -5
I turned my face away and dreamed about you
 -3 -5 4< 6 -5 -5    7  7  -6< -6<  6   6
Got on a lucky one came in eighteen to one
 7   -7 -8  -7  -5  -5    7   -6< -6< 6   6
I've got a feeling this years for me and you
-3 -5  4<   6  -5  -7  -9  9<  9< -8
So hap-py christmas I love you ba-by
-7 -8  9< -9 -7-6<  -6<
I can see a better time
 -5   7  -6<   6     -5   -5 
when all our dreams come true

Very Slow
-8 9< 10 -7 -5 7 -6< 6 -5

Very Quick
-7 -8 -7 -6< -5 -5
-7 -8 -7 6 -5 6
-6< 6 -5 -4< -3 -4<
-3 -4< -4< -5

Quick Tempo
  -5    -5   -5   6 -6<  6      -5    6   -6 6  -5  -3
They've got cars big as bars they've got rivers of gold
-5  -5   -5   6    -6<     -7   -6<  -6<-6<  -7   -6< -5   6   
but the wind goes right through you It's no place for the old
 -7  -7   -7    -6< -5  6   -5 6  -6<  6    -5  -3
when you first took my hand on a cold christmas eve
-5   -5   6  -6  -7  -6< -5   6  -6<  6  -5
you promised me Broadway was waiting for me
-7   -7   -7  -8   -7  -7  -6< -5
you were handsome you were pretty
  -7  -7 -6<  -5  -5 -3
queen of New York Ci-ty
 -5   6   -6  -4   -5  -3  3
when the band finished playing
 -4<   -3   -4  -4<  -5
they howled out for more
-6<-7-8 -7  -6   -5
Sinatra was swinging
-7  -7   -7     -6<  -5   6  -5
all the drunks they were singing
6    -6<  6  -5  -4< -3
we kissed on the cor-ner
-4<    -3     -5    -4<  -5
then danced through the night
-7   -8  -8 -8 -8 9< -9 -9  9< 
the boys of the N Y  P  D Choir
 -8  -7  -6< -5  6  -6<
were singing Galway Bay
-5   6   -6<   -5   7  -6<  6
and the bells were ringing out
-5   -6<  6   -5   
for christmas day

Next verse lyric

you're a bum you're a punk
your an old slut on junk
lying there almost dead
on a drip in that bed
you scumbag you maggot 
you cheap lousy faggot
happy christmas your arse
I pray god it's our last

-7   -8  -8 -8 -8 9< -9 -9  9<
the boys of the N Y   P  D Choir
-8   -7  -6< -5  6  -6
were singing Galway Bay
-5   6   -6    -5   7  -6<  6
and the bells were ringing out
-5   -6<  6   -5
for christmas day

Finish with.....
slow tempo
-3 -5   -4<   6    -5  -5   -7  -7  -8  -7 4 4
I could have been some-one well so could anyone
 4   -7  -8   -7    -5  -5  -5  6  -5     -5  -4<
you took my dreams from me when I first found you
-3 -5   -4<  6   -5  -5 -7 -9   9<   9<  -8 -8
I kept them with me babe I put them with me own
 -8    9<  -9 -7  -6 -6   -5   -6<  -5   7    -6< 6  -5
can't make it all alone. I've built my dreams around you

-7   -8  -8 -8 -8 9< 9 9   9<
the boys of the N  Y P D Choir
 -8  -7  -6< -5  6  -6<
were singing Galway Bay
 -5  6   -6<   -5   7  -6<  6
and the bells were ringing out
-5   -6<  6   -5
for christmas day


There done it again, thats the last time 
I will touch this.

Yours Harmusman