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The Star-Spangled Banner (Chromatic)

by Francis Scott Key & John Stafford Smith · tab for chromatic harmonica

No bends101 notesHoles 3–9Chromatic
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4 = blow hole 4-4 = draw hole 4’ = bend< = slide in
Musical Range: G4 to D6
Oh,__ say can you see
by the dawn's ear-ly light
What so proudly we hailed
at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched
were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare,
the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that
our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled
banner__ yet__ wave
O'er the land of the free