On The South Side Of Chicago

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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

ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO
By: Phil Zeller
Ray Price
Key: C

 7  6   -5    5   -4  -3
Fan-cy girls out work-in’ 
 3* -4   -5  -6   6
Hon-ky tonk's a-blaze 
 -8    -8 -7  -8  -8 -7   -8  -7   6
these were a part of the good old days
 6   6  -7  -7   6
When I used to swing 
3  -3   -4    5   -5 -5* 6  7
on the south side of Chi-ca-go
 7   6   -5    5   -4   -3
Twen-ty first and Went-worth 
 3* -4   -5  -6    6
was its beat-ing heart 
-8   -8    -7   -8  -8   -7   -8  -7    6
The place where ac-tion first got its start
 6    6    -7  -7   6
Back when jazz was king 

3  -3   -4    5   -5  6  -5 5
On the south side of Chi-ca-go
6   6   -4   -3*  -4   
I still can hear those 
-5   6   -6   6    5*  -3
sil-ver trum-pets blow-in'
-5 -5  -3   3* -3    5
in lit-tle pla-ces filled
 6   -5  -3   -4  -5
with peo-ple glow-in'
 7  6   -5    5   -4  -3
New Or-leans was groov-y 
 3*  -4   -5   -6   6
Mem-phis light and gay
-8  -8   -7   -8   -8  -7   -8     -7    6
And who could put down New York's Broad-way
 6    6    6  -7  -7   6
But there was ev-‘ry-thing 
3  -3   -4    5   -5  6  -5 5
on the south side of Chi-ca-go

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