Roadhouse Blues (harp part) Harmonica Tabs

By “chirps”, I mean staccato. Use your tongue between
your teeth.
/ = bend up to the note ( /-4 for example)
/ = bend down from the note ( -2 for example)
gl = gliss ( -4 gl -2 for example)
[-4’ -4’ 5 6] = four separate notes played quickly
(quick)

Find a recording of the studio version in which the harp comes through
clearly so you can hear the details of the draws & bends.

In the intro, some moanin’ & wailin’ is done on the
-1. That is an overdub.

(Editing is impossible, so good luck figuring out where some stuff
belongs. I give up trying to get it right. It can’t be done. Most
of it is how I want it.)

Intro:
First four bars:
(-2 -3) chirps & (2 3) (-2 -3) (-3 -4)’

Next three bars:
(-2 -3) chirps & -4 gl -2 -4 gl -2 -4 gl -2

Next bar:
(-2 -3) chirps & -4 gl -2 -3’ -3’ -2

Keep your eyes on the road,
chirps

Your hand upon the wheel
chirps -2 -3’ 4 /-4 -4 gl -2 -3’ -2 -2

Keep your eyes on the road,
chirps

Your hand upon the wheel
chirps -2 -3’ 4 /-4 -4 gl -2 -3’ -2 -2

Yeah, we’re goin’ to the roadhouse
chirps

Gonna have a real … a good time
chirps -3’ -2 -2

At the back of the roadhouse
chirps

They got some bungalows
chirps -2 -3’ 4 [-4’ -4’ 5 6]
[-4’ -4’ 5 6] -3’ -2 -2
(quick) (quick)
At the back of the roadhouse
chirps

They got some bungalows
chirps -2 -3’ 4 /-4 -4’ -4 3’ -2
-2

That’s for the peo- ple
(-4 -5) (-4 -5) (4 5)(-4 -5)(5 6)

who like to go down slow
-7 -6 6 -5 -3 -2 -2 -2 -3 -2 -2

Let it roll, baby, roll
(4 5) -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4

Let it roll, baby, roll (2 times)
(-5 -6) (4 5) (-4 -5) (4 5) (-5 -6) (4 5) (-4 -5) (4 5)
(-5 -6) (4 5) (-4 -5) (4 5) (-4 -5) (2 times)

Let it roll
lay out

All night long
chirps

GUITAR SOLO
chirps & some riffs such as:
-4 -4 -4 -2 -3’ -2 -2,
-2 -3’ -2 -2 -4 -5 -4 -3 -2,
-4 -5 -4 -3 -2

You gotta roll, roll, roll, You gotta thrill my soul
Chirps -2 -3’

Alright
-3’ -2

Roll, roll, roll, roll into my soul, you gotta (Scat)
Chirps

Yea, right.
(3 4) -4 -4 -4 (-4 -5 warble) -4 4 -3 -2
-3” -3 -4 -3 3 -3’ -2 -2

Ashen lady
chirps -4’ 4 -3’ -4’ -2

Ashen lady
-4’ 4 -3’ -4’ -2

Give up your vows
-2 -3’ -3’ -2

Give up your vows
-4 -5 gl -2 -2

Save our city
-4’ 4 -3 -2

Save our city
-4’ 4 -3 -2

Right now
-3’ -3’ -2

-2 -3’ -4’ -3’ -4’ (-3 -2) (-2 -1)

chirps

Well, I woke up this morning
chirps

And I got myself a beer
chirps -2 -3’ 4 /-4 -4 gl -2 -3’ -2 -2

Well, I woke up this morning
chirps

And I got myself a beer
chirps -2 -3’ 4 /-4 -4 gl -2 -3’ -2 -2

The future’s uncertain
-4 -5 -4 -5 -4 -5 -4

And the end is always near
-5 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 3 3 -2 -3’ -2 -2

Let it roll, baby, roll
(-4 -5 warble) -2 -3’ -3’ -2

Let it roll, baby, roll
(-4 -5 warble) -2 -3’ -3’ -2

Let it roll, baby, roll
-2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -3’

Let it roll
-4’ -5

All night long