Blackbird
Lennon/McCartney

Tabbed by Marc Hertzberg (hertzberg@cornmuffin.com)
          of HELP! (cornmuffin.com/help)


The song is played with alternating two-note plucks and a "drone"
played on the open G string.  After a while in the transcription, I 
got tired and stopped putting in the drone.



Intro:

-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|--0-----1-----3-----/12-------------------------------------------
-|-----0-----0-----0------------------------------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|--------0-----2-----/10-------------------------------------------
-|--3---------------------------------------------------------------



Verse:

-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|--0---------1--------------3------/12-----------------------------
-|-------0-----------0----------0--------0--------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|------------0--------------2------/10-----------------------------
-|--3---------------------------------------------------------------
   Blackbird singing in the dead of night

-|-------------3----------------5----------------------3--------------
-|--5-----------------7-----------------8-----8--7-----------5-----4--
-|-------0--------0--------0--------0------0--------0-----0-----0-----
-|--------------------------------------------------------------------
-|--3----------4------5---------6-------7-----6--5-----4-----3-----3--
-|--------------------------------------------------------------------
   Take these broken wings and learn to fly     All   your  life

-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|--3--------------2----------------1--------0-----5--3--2--1--0----
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|----------------------------------0-----------------------0-------
-|--2--------------0-------------------------------3--2--0----------
-|-------------------------------------------3-----------------3----
   You were only waiting for this moment to arise



Middle Part:

-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|--10--8--6--5--3--5----10--8--6--4--3--2--------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|--8---7--5--3--1--3----8---7--5--3--1--0--------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
   Black   bird   fly   Black              

-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|------------1-----------------------0-----------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|------------0-----------------------------------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|------------------------------------3-----------------------------
   Into the light of the dark black night



Little turnaround after the second middle part:

-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|--12\--0--1--3--5--3--2--1----------------------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|-------------------------0----------------------------------------
-|--10\-----0--2--3--2--0-------------------------------------------
-|-------3----------------------------------------------------------


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Tab Special Notations:
----0----  play the open string ('fret zero')
----5----  play fret five
----5~---  play fret five with vibrato
---5/7---  play fret five, slide up to fret seven
---7\5---  play fret seven, slide down to fret five
--7\5/7--  play fret seven, slide down to fret five, slide back up
--8b(9)--  play fret eight, bend the string (at fret eight) to reach
             the pitch of fret nine
--b(9)8--  play fret eight already bent to the pitch of fret nine,
             unbending until it reaches the normal pitch of fret eight
----h7---  hammer-on to fret seven
----p5---  pull-off to fret five
---/7----  slide up to fret 7 (the starting fret of the slide is
             undefined, judge by ear)
---15\---  play fret 15, slide down (the ending fret of the slide is
             undefined, judge by ear)
---0h3---  play the open string and immediately hammer-on to fret
             three
---7p5---  play fret seven and immediately pull-off to fret five