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After Hours

by Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra · tab for chromatic harmonica

No bends324 notesHoles 3–9Chromatic
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4 = blow hole 4-4 = draw hole 4’ = bend< = slide in
Af-ter hours, when it's time
To close the doors
and turn the lights down low
Af-ter hours, where the lone-ly sha-dows
Spend the night, that's where I go
You can find me,
Walk-in' with those af-ter hours blues
Af-ter hours with the blues
Look-in' a-round for a place to for-get her
I keep com-in' back to the one where we met
It's dark and de-sert-ed, but some-thing
A-bout it still makes me a-ware
That I care for her yet
Out of the past comes a dim re-col-lec-tion,
She's sit-tin' with me at a ta-ble for two
Then in the dark of a win-dows re-flec-tion
I see I'm a-lone and I know that we're thru
And I go on walk-in' with those
af-ter hours blues
af-ter hours, just the blues and me
I try to find some peace of mind
A friend-ly voice some one who's kind
I close my eyes try not to think
Oh Lord, got ta have a drink
Oh Lord please help me to for-get
Oh Lord, my heart is heav-y yet
Oh Lord, I've got to find a place
Where I won't see that haunt-ing face
A place where I can go to lose
Those mel-an-chol-y af-ter hours blues
The night is still, the streets are bare
And like the blues, she's ev-'ry-where
I close my eyes, but mem-'ries stay
Oh Lord, make them go a-way
She's gone, why can't she let me be
She's gone, and yet she's here with me
So on I go find a place
Where I won't see that haunt-ing face
A place where I can go to lose
Those mel-an-chol-y af-ter hours blues