Learn to play House of the Rising Sun (Hakan Ehn style on your Diatonic
House of the Rising Sun (Hakan Ehn style Harmonica Tab
I didn’t originally intend to post this. It was for my own reference,
a person in another forum was asking about tabs for this, so here it is.
/ and mean bend up to the note or bend down from the note. (The backward
slash I typed above wouldn’t show up when I posted the tab.) “g” means gliss. Well, none of the backslashes show up. Just listen to the video.
G Harp
-4 -6 -1 -2” -3’ -2” -1 -1
There is a house in New Or-leans
-4 -4 -4 4 -3’ -3’
They call the Ris-ing Sun
-4 -4 -4 -4 4 -3’ -3” -1 X -2”
And it’s been the ruin of ma- ny poor boy
-1 -1 -1-1’ -1’ -1
And God I know I’m one
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-4 -4 -4 4 -3’ -2” -1
My mo-ther was a tai-lor
-4 -4 -4 4 -3”/-3’
She sewed my new blue-jeans
-(gliss from -6)-
-8 -8 -8 -8 7 /-6 /-6 -4 -5
My fa-ther was a gamb- lin’ man
-4 -4 4 -3’ (-4 -5) -4
Down in New Or- leans
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-8 -8 -8 -8 7 -6 6 -4 -5
Now the on-ly thing a gam-bler needs
-8 -8 -8 -8 7 -6 -6
Is a suit-case and a trunk
-8 -8 -8 -8 7 g-6 g-6 -4 -5
And the on-ly time he’s sa- tis-fied
(-4 -5) -4 -4 -4’ -3’(-4 -5)
Is when he’s on a drunk
****************************Low D Harp
-4 -2 -2 -3’ -2 4 -3
Oh mother go tell your chil-dren
-2 -3’ -2 4 -3 -2 -3’ 4 (-4 -5 shake)
Oh not to do what I have done
-4 (-4 -5) -2 -3 4 -3 -2 -3’ 4 -2
Oh spend your lives in sin and mi-se- ry
-1 -1 -2 -2” -1’ -2
Down in New Or-leans
*************************Solo D Harp
-2 -3” -3’ -3” -4 -3 -2
~
/-4 -5g -2 -3” 4
-2 -3” -3’ -3” -4 -3 -2
~
/-4 -3 -2 -3” 4 -4
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-4’ -4 /-5 5 -4 4 -3’ -2
-2 -2 -2 -4’ 4 -3’ -2
~
-3 -2 -2” -2 -3’ -2
~
-1’ -1 -2” -2 -3’ 4 -3’ /-4 -5 6 -5 -4 4 -3’
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-4 -5 6 /-6 6 -5 6 -5 4 -4
-2 -3’ -4 -2 -2 -2” -2 -4
-4’ -4 /-5 -4 -5 -4 /-5
–slide— –(7X)–
-4 -4’ -4 -4’ -4 -4’ -3’ -4’ -4 -5 -4 -5
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9 8 -8 8 -8 -9 7 -6 6
-5 -4’ 4 -3’ -3” -2 -3’ 4 -3’
-5 /-4 -5 -2 -3// -2 -3’ -2”/-2” -1 -2”
-1 -2”/ -3’/ 4 -3’ -5 -4’ -4//
/-4 4 -3’ -2 -2”/ -3’ -2
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/(-4 -5) /(-4 -5) /(-4 -5) /-4 /-4 /-4
~ -5 (6X. Different speeds.)
-4 -4 4 -3’ -2 -3” 4 -3” [-4 -5 -4 -3]
-4 (-3 -4) (-3’ -4’)/// (-4 -5)
56 6 6 -5 -4 -5 6 -5 -6’
~
6 -5 -4 56 -5 -4 -4’ 4 -3” -3’
-4’ -4 -5 -4’ -4 -4’ -3 -2 -3”
-3’ 4 -3’ -2 -3’ 4 -3’
-5 4 -4 4 -3 -2 -1
-4’ -3” -2 -2” -2 -2” -1/ -2 -2” -1 -2”
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/9 /9 /9 9 -10 9 10’ /10 /10 /10
9 -10 9 /10 /10 /10 /10 /10 /10
9 /9 /9 9 -10 9 /10 /10
9 -10 9 /10 /10 /10 /9 8 -8 9
****************************G Harp
-4 -6 -1 -2” -3’ -2” -1 -1
I’ve got one foot on the plat-form
-4 -4 -4 4 -3” -3’
The o-ther on the train
-4 -4 -4 4 -3’ -3” -1 -2”
I’m go-in’ back to New Or-leans
-1’ -1 -1 -1’ -1’ -1
To wear that ball and chain
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-4 -4 -4 4 -3’ -2” -1’ -1
There is a house in New Or-leans
-4 -4 -4 4 -3” -3’
They call the Ris-ing Sun
-8 -8 -8 7 -6 -6 -4 -5
It’s been the ruin of ma-ny boy
-4 -4 4 -3’ -4
God I know I’m one
************************Low D Harp
Play softly:
Mostly half notes:
-1 -2 -3” 4 -4
(1/16th note)
-2 -3” 4 -2
-1 -2 -3” 4 -4
(1/16th note)
-2 -1 -2
(3 beats)
Repeat
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