Key: Eb minor / F# major (B harp in 5th / 2nd positions)
There's no denying it, this song is fiendishly difficult on the diatonic harmonica. I have done my best to tab out the verse and chorus sections (including the counter-line for the chorus). These tabs contain lots of bends and several overblows as well. I've left out the latter stages of the song as it contains more far-out key changes!
VERSE 1:
5 -4 -3 -3 -3 -3 5 5 6 -6 -4 -4 4 -3
I……… I love the colourful clothes she we-ea-rs
-3// -3 4 -4 -3// -3 4 -3 -3// -2 -3// -2 -2/
And the way the sunlight plays upon her ha-ai-r
-7 -7 -7 -7 -6 6 -4 5 -3 -3// -2
I……… hear the sound of a gentle wo-o-ord
-3// -3 4 -4 -3// -3 4 -3 -3// -2 -3// -2 -2/
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the ai-ai-air
CHORUS:
6 -5 -5 5 3 -3// 4 -4
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
6 -5 -5 5 5 3 -3// 4 -4
She's giving me the excitations
6 -5 -5 5 3 -3// 4 -4
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
6 -5 -5 5 5 3 -3// 4 -4
She's giving me the excitations
-6 6 6 5* -3// -3 -4 5
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
-6 6 6 5* 5* -3// -3 -4 5
She's giving me the excitations
-7 -6 -6 -6/ -3 -4/ 5 5*
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
-7 -6 -6 -6/ -6/ -3 -4/ 5 5*
She's giving me the excitations
Chorus counter-melody:
-3 4 4 -4 4 4 -3 4 4
Good, bap bap, good vibrations, bap bap
-4 -4/ -4/ -3// -4/ -4/ 5 -4 -4/ -3// -4/ -4/
Ex-cit-ati-ons, bap bap, good vibrations, bap bap
5 -4 -4 -3 5 5 5* 5 5 4* 5 5
Excitations, bap bap, good vibrations, bap bap
5* 5 5
Excitate…
VERSE 2:
5 5 5 -4 -3 -3 5 6 -6 -4 -4 4 -3
Close my e-e-eyes, she's somehow closer no-o-ow
4 -4 -3// -3 4 -3 -3// -2 -3// -2 -2/
Softly smile, I know she must be ki-i-ind
-7 -6 6 -4 5 -3 -3// -2
When…… I look in her e-e-eyes
-3// -3 4 -4 -3// -3 4 -3 -3//
She goes with me to a blossom world
[CHORUS]