Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Harmonica Lesson (Harp Tabs & Backing Track)

Hello! In today's harmonica lesson we'll be playing 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' by Tears for Fears on a diatonic harmonica in the key of C. Follow the tabs on the screen to play along!

The song is tabbed out for diatonic harmonica (in any key). The symbols I use are pretty basic - positive numbers are blow, negative numbers are draw.

Verse 1:

-6 -6 8 -6 6 -6
  Welcome to your li-fe

-6 -6 8 -6 6
  There's no turning back

-6 -6 8 -6 6 -6
  Even while we sleep

-6 -6 8 -6
  We will find you
 
 Chorus:

-6 8 -6 6 -6 8 -6 6
  Acting on your best behaviour

-6 8 -8 7 -6 6 5 6
  Turn your back on Mother Nature

-6 8 -6 6 -6 6 5 -4 4
  Everybody wants to rule the world
 
 Verse 2:

-6 -6 8 -6 6 6
  It's my own de-e-sign

-6 -6 8 -6 6
  It's my own remorse

-6 -6 8 -9 8 -8 7
  Help me to de-ci-i-de

-6 -6 8 -6
  Help me make the
 
 Chorus:

-6 8 -6 6 -6 8 -6 6
  Most of freedom and of pleasure

-6 8 -8 7 -6 6 5 6
  Nothing ever lasts forever

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Everybody wants to rule the world

Bridge:

-6 7 8 -8 7 7 -6 6 -6

There's a room where the light won't find you

-6 7 8 -8 7 7 -6 6 -6 -6
  Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down

-6 7 8 -8 7 7 -6 6 -6
  When they do I'll be right behind you
 

Chorus:

8 -8 7 -6 6 5 6
  So glad we've almost made it

8 -8 7 -6 6 5 6
  So sad they had to fade it

-6 8 -6 6 -6 6 5 -4 4
  Everybody wants to rule the world
 

[Instrumental break]

Chorus:

-6 8 -6 6 -6 8 -6 6
  I can't stand this indecision

-6 8 -8 7 -6 6 5 6
  Married with a lack of vision

-6 8 -6 6 -6 6 5 -4 4
  Everybody wants to rule the world

8 -8 7 -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 7
  Say that you'll never never never never need it

8 -8 7 -6 6 -6 7
  One headline, why believe it

-6 8 -6 6 -6 6 5 -4 4
  Everybody wants to rule the world
 

-6 8 -6 6 -6 8 -6 6
  All for freedom and for pleasure

-6 8 -8 7 -6 6 5 6
  Nothing ever lasts forever

-6 8 -6 6 -6 6 5 -4 4
  Everybody wants to rule the world

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