Locomotive Breath Em Harp

by Jethro Tull

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Play this on a Natural Em Harmonica.


 Em G D Em  -2 -2 -3 -2" -2  (x3)
                        
   -2  -2 -3  4 -3  -4  -4      -2  -2   -2 -2 -3 -2   -2" -2
   In the shuffling madness      Of the  locomotive   breath
  
    -2   -2  -3   4 -5 -4        -4   -4 -5  -4    -4
   Runs the all-time loser      Head long to his death
 
   -5  6     -5 -4  4    4  -4     -5   -4    4  4   4  -3 -2
   He feels the piston scraping   Steam breaking on his brow
    
   -3  -3 -3  -3   -3   4  4   -3     4   -4   -4   6    6  -4 -4
   Ol Charly stole the handle and    The train it won't stop going
   
   4   4  -4   4  -3 -2
   No way to slow down.
    
  -2   -2  -2   -3   4  -4  -4  -4   -2  -2  -2   -2  -3  -2"  -2
   He sees his children jumping off   At the stations one by  one

  .-2  -2 -2 -3   4   -5    -4     -4 -4  -4  -5 -4   -4
   His woman and his best frend    In bed and having fun

   -5    6  -5   -4   4  4 -4 -4    -5 -4    4   -3   -2
   He’s crawlin down the coridor    On his hands and knees

   -3 -3 -3   -3   -3   4  4   -3     4  -4   -4  6      6 -4 -4
   Ol Charly stole the handle and   The train it won't stop going

    4  4  -4   4  -3 -2 
   No way to slow down.

   -2   -2  -3   4  -3  -4 -4       -2 -2  -2 -2  -3  -2"  -2
   He hears the silence howling    Catches angels as they fall

   -2  -2  -3    4  -5  -4    -4  -4  -4  -5 -4   -4
   And the all-time winner    Has got him by the balls

   -5   6   -5 -4  4    4 -4   -5-4   4  -3  -2
   He picks up Gideon’s Bible   Open at page one

   -3   -3   -3   -3   4  4  -3     4   -4   -4   6    6   -4 -4
   God  he  stole the handle and   The train it won't stop going

   4   4  -4   4  -3  -2
   No way to slow down.
       
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