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19th Nervous Breakdown

by The Rolling Stones · tab for chromatic harmonica

No bends343 notesHoles 2–8Chromatic

My harp is in

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4 = blow hole 4-4 = draw hole 4’ = bend< = slide in

You're the kind of per-son

You meet at cer-tain dis-mal dull af-fairs.

Cen-ter of a crowd, talk-ing much too loud

Run-ning up and down the stairs.

Well, it seems to me that you

have seen too much in too few years.

And though you've tried you just can't hide

Your eyes are edged with tears.

You bet-ter stop look a-round

Here it comes, here it comes,

here it comes, here it comes

Here comes your nine-teenth ner-vous break-down.

When you were a child

You were treat-ed kind

But you were nev-er brought up right.

You were al-ways spoiled with a thous-and toys

But still you cried all night.

Your moth-er who ne-glect-ed you

Owes a mil-lion dol-lars tax.

And your fa-ther's still per-fect-ing

ways of mak-ing ceil-ing wax.

You bet-ter stop look a-round

Here it comes, here it comes,

here it comes, here it comes

Here comes your nine-teenth ner-vous break-down.

Oh, who's to blame, that girl's just in-sane.

Well noth-ing I do don't seem to work,

It on-ly seems to make mat-ters worse.

Oh please.

You were still in school

When you had that fool

Who real-ly messed your mind.

And af-ter that you turned your back

On treat-ing peo-ple kind.

On our first trip

I tried so hard to re-ar-range your mind.

But af-ter a while I re-al-ized

you were dis-ar-rang-ing mine.

You bet-ter stop look a-round

Here it comes, here it comes,

here it comes, here it comes

Here comes your nine-teenth ner-vous break-down.

Here comes your nine-teenth ner-vous break-down.

Here comes your nine-teenth ner-vous break-down.