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Me & Bobby McGee (Joplin version)

by Janis Joplin · tab for chromatic harmonica

No bends368 notesHoles 3–8Chromatic
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4 = blow hole 4-4 = draw hole 4’ = bend< = slide in
Bust-ed flat in Bat-on Rouge,
Wait-in' for a train,
When I was feel-in' near as
fad-ed as my jeans.
Bob-by thumbed a die-sel down,
just be-fore it rained;
They rode us all the way to New Or-leans.
I pulled my har-poon out of
my dir-ty red ban-dan-na,
I was play-in' soft while
Bob-by sang the blues.
Yeah, wind-shield wip-ers slap-in' time,
I was hold-in Bob-by's hand in mine
We sang ev-'ry song that driv-er knew.
Free-dom's just an-oth-er word
for noth-in' left to lose:
Noth-in' don't mean noth-in'
if it ain't free no no.
If feel-ing good was eas-y, Lord,
when he sang the blues.
you know feel-ing good
was good e-nough for me;
Good e-nough for me and my Bob-by Mc-Gee.
From the Ken-tuck-y coal mines
to the Cal-i-for-nia sun,
hey Bob-by shared the sec-rets of my soul.
through all kinds of weath-er
through ev-'ry-thing that we've done, yeah
Bob-by ba-by helped me from the whole world.
One day up near Sal-i-nas, Lord,
I let him slip a-way,
He's look-in' for that home
And I hope he finds it.
But I'd trade all of my to-mor-rows
for one sin-gle yes-ter-day,
to be hold-in' Bob-by's bod-y next to mine.
Free-dom's just an-oth-er word
for noth-in' left to lose:
Noth-in' that's all that Bob-by left me yeah.
But if feel-in' good was eas-y, Lord,
when he sang the blues hey.
feel-in' good was good e-nough for me mm, hmm;
Good e-nough for me and my Bob-by Mc-Gee. La da
Hey hey hey Bob-by Mc Gee yeah