Bye Bye Blackbird

Bye Bye Blackbird  Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon 1926 
published by Jerome Remick 
A jazz standard first recorded by Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra 
tuning: standard  key: C 
tabbed by dinkz1 


 
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 Pack up all my cares and woes, Feeling low, Here I go,     Bye Bye  Blackbird...   
 

 
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  Where somebody waits for me, Sugar's sweet, So is she,    Bye Bye  Blackbird... 
 

 
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  No one seems to love or understand me, And all the hard luck stories they keep handing me, 
 

 
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  Where somebody shines the light, I'll be coming on home tonight,  

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     Bye Bye Blackbird...  Blackbird   Bye Bye!  


Solo off this blues C scale: 

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Legend 

~  hold note with vibrato 
h  hammer on 
!  forte 

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