Fairy Tale of New York (chromatic) Harmonica Tabs

For Anl and others, I did not have the music score for this so I have cribbed it from Pagan’s version 2

slow tempo

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It was christmas eve babe In the drunk tank
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an old man said to me “won’t see an-oth-er one
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and then he sang a song
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the rare old mountain dew
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I turned my face away and dreamed about you
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Got on a lucky one came in eighteen to one
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I’ve got a feeling this years for me and you
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So hap-py christmas I love you ba-by
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I can see a better time
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when all our dreams come true

Very Slow
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Very Quick
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Quick Tempo
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They’ve got cars big as bars they’ve got rivers of gold
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but the wind goes right through you It’s no place for the old
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when you first took my hand on a cold christmas eve
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you promised me Broadway was waiting for me
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you were handsome you were pretty
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queen of New York Ci-ty
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when the band finished playing
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they howled out for more
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Sinatra was swinging
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all the drunks they were singing
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we kissed on the cor-ner
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then danced through the night
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the boys of the N Y P D Choir
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were singing Galway Bay
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and the bells were ringing out
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for christmas day

Next verse lyric

you’re a bum you’re a punk
your an old slut on junk
lying there almost dead
on a drip in that bed
you scumbag you maggot
you cheap lousy faggot
happy christmas your arse
I pray god it’s our last

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the boys of the N Y P D Choir
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were singing Galway Bay
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and the bells were ringing out
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for christmas day

Finish with…..
slow tempo
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I could have been some-one well so could anyone
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you took my dreams from me when I first found you
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I kept them with me babe I put them with me own
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can’t make it all alone. I’ve built my dreams around you

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the boys of the N Y P D Choir
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were singing Galway Bay
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and the bells were ringing out
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for christmas day

There done it again, thats the last time
I will touch this.