Diatonic Harmonica Tabs

Words by Herbert Kretzmer
Music by Charles Aznavour
Performed by Elvis Costello/Charles Aznavour

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She may be the face I can't forget
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 A trace of pleasure or regret
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May be my treasure
-7  -6   6   -5  5  -5  6
Or the price I have to pay
-5   5  -5   5  6    -5   5  -4   -5
She may be the song that summer sings
 5  -5  5    6    -5   5  -4   5
May be the chill that autumn brings
 3 -3b 4  -5  5   -4   4    -4 
May be a hundred diff-rent things
 3  -3  4   5  -4   4  -3  4 
Within the measure of  a  day

 7  -7   7  -7  -8 7  -7  -6   7  
She may be the beauty or the beast
-7  7  -7   -8  7  -7  -6   7
May be the famine  or the feast
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May turn each day in - to  a 
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Heaven or  a  hell
-5   5  -5  5   6 -5   5 -4   -5 
She may be the mirror of my dream
5   -5   5   6   -5  5 -4   5    
A smile re-flect-ed in a  stream
 3  -3b  4  -5   5   -4  4   -4
She may not be what she may seem
-3b  4   -3   4 
In-side her shell

 7   5   -5 6    -6  -7  7 8   7 7  -7
She who always seems so happy in a crowd
  -7   -6   -7  8  -7  -6  6  -6  -7   -6     
Whose eyes can be  so private and so proud
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No one's allowed to see them when they cry
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She may be the love 
 -6   6 -5   6   -6  6 
That cannot hope to last
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May come to me from shadows of the past
 -4  5  5 -5  -6   -7   -7  7  -7 -7
That I re-mem-ber till the day I die

 7  -7  7   -7  -8 7  -7 -6  7   
She may be the reason I survive
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The why and wherefore I'm a-live
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The one I'll care for
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Through the rough and rea-dy years
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Me -- I'll take her laughter and her tears
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And make them all my souvenirs
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For where she goes, I've got to be
-3b  -3  4   5 -4   4  -3          
The meaning of my life is 
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She    She     mm      She
Harmonica Tabs Song Info
Title She
Artist Elvis Costello
Key C
Harp Type Diatonic

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