Summertime (Janis Joplin version) Harmonica Tabs

By: George & Ira Gershwin,
DuBose & Dorothy Heyward
Janis Joplin
Key: Gm
Time: 6/8

|3 -3 -3* -5 7 -7|
|-7* 8 -9 -9* -10* -11|
|11 -10* 11 -9…|
|11 -10* 11 -9…|
|11 -10* 11 -9-9*-98-7*-7|
|-7*-77-6*7-7 -7* 8 -9*|
-9… -9 8 -7*| |8… 8 -7* -7|
-7*-9 9…| |-7*… -7 7 -6*|
|7… -7…| |-7*… 8…|
|-9… -9* -9 8-7*|

-6 -6 7 -5 5 4 -3*…
Sum-mer-time, time, time,
4*…-3* 3 -3* 3 -3* 3…
Child, the liv-in’s eas-y.
3 -3* -5 -5* -5…-5*-5-5*5
Fish are jump-in’ now
-3* 3 -3* 4 -54-3*
And the cot-ton, Lord,
4 -3* -5-6-5 7 -6 7-6-5
Cot-ton’s high, Lord so high.

-5 7 -5 -5 5-5…
Your dad-dy’s rich
5 -3* -6 7 5* 5 5 -3* 3
And your ma’s so good-look-in’, babe.
-3* 4 -3* 4* 4-54-3*
She’s look-in’ good now,
-3 -3* 3 -3* 3 -3* 3 -3*-3*
Hush, ba-by, ba-by, ba-by, ba-by,
3-23-3*-3-5 -5 -5 -5
Ba-by N-no, no, no, no,
-5* -5 5-3*3 7 7 7-6*7
Don’t you cry, don’t you cry.

instrumental break

-5 -3* 5* -6 7-55-3*
One of these morn-ings
4* 4* -3*4-3* -3* 3 3 3
You’re gon-na rise, rise up sing-ing,
3 -3* -3* -5 -5* -5-5*-5-5*5
You’re gon-na spread your wings,
-3*
child,

3 -3*5-55-3* 5 -3* -3* -5-6-55
And take, take to the sky,
7 -6 7-6-5
Lord, the sky.
-5 -6 -5 -5 -5
Un-til the morn-ing,
5 -3* -67 5* 5 -3* -3* 3 3 3 3
Hon-ey, n-noth-ing’s go-in’ to harm you, now
5 5 -5 5 -3* 5 -55-3*55-3*
No, no, no no, no no, no…
3-23-3*-3-5 -5 -5 -5
Ba-by N-no, no, no, no,
7 7 7-6*7
Don’t you cry