The Star Spangled Banner | Harmonica Lesson & Tabs

This is a diatonic harmonica lesson for the American national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner. I hope you enjoy it!

The tab system

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.

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Oh-oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light

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Who so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming

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Whose broad stripes & bright stars through the perilous fight

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O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming

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And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air

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Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there

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O say does tha-at star-spangled ba-nne-er ye-et wa-ve

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O'er the la-and of the free and the home of the brave.

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