(If I Knew You Were Comin') I'D'Ve Baked A Cake

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+: 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

(If I Knew You Were Comin’)
I’D’VE BAKED A CAKE
By: Bob Merrill, Al Hoffman, Clem Watts
Bing Crosby
Key: F

 4     -3    4     -3   -2    -3
Well, well, well, look who’s here
-2 -3  -3  -3*   4 -3* -3 -2 3  -2
I have-n’t seen you in man-y a year
-2 3  -3  -3   3*  -3  3
If I knew you were com-in’
-2   -1   1  -1  -2     1  -1  3
I’d ’ve baked a cake, baked a cake,
  1  -1  -3
baked a cake
-2 3  -3  -3   3*  -3  3
If I knew you were com-in’
-2   -1   1  -1  -2
I’d ’ve baked a cake
 4  -3 4   -3* -3*-3   3  3  -2
How-ja do, how-ja do, how-ja do

-2   3    -3    -3 3* -3  3
Had you dropped me a let-ter
-2   -1   1  -1  -2     1   -1   3
I’d ’ve hired a band, grand-est band
1  -1   -3
In the land
-2   3    -3    -3 3* -3  3
Had you dropped me a let-ter
-2   -1   1  -1  -2
I’d ’ve hired a band
-3     4   -3  -3*  3   -3   3  -2
And spread the wel-come mat for you
 
 3 -2  -5   -3*   -2   -3*  -5   -3*
Now I don’t know where you came from
  -3  -3*  4   -3*   -3    -3*    4
‘Cause I don’t know where you’ve been
-2  3   -3  3*  -3   3* -3   3
But it real-ly does-n’t mat-ter
 -2  3   -3   3*  -3   3*   -3   3
Grab a chair and fill your plat-ter
-2  -5   4  -3*  -3   3
And dig dig dig right in

-2 3  -3  -3   3*  -3  3
If I knew you were com-in’
-2   -1   1  -1  -2
I’d ’ve baked a cake
  1  -1  3     1    -1   -3
Hired a band, good-ness sake
-2 3  -3  -3   3*  -3  3
If I knew you were com-in’
-2   -1   1  -1  -2
I’d ’ve baked a cake
 4  -3 4   -3* -3*-3   3  3  -2
How-ja do, how-ja do, how-ja do

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