Australian Crawl - Boys Light Up

Hi Luke,

I’m trying to figure out the tab for this song but I don’t agree with the 7 from the below tab I found on YouTube (to me it sounds more like a blow 6):

intro:

-1, -1 -1" -1

-1 (1 2 3), -1 (1 2 3)

-1, -1 -1" -1

main riff:

-4 -4 4 -4

-5 -5 5 -5

-5 6 7 -6 7

-5 5 -4 -4 4 -4

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My favorite Crawl song. Some risqué lyrics, that they somehow got away with. I think you might be right about the tab but not certain. Published tabs are quite often wrong, I’ve done it myself. Also, there are obviously different versions of the same song, so it can depend on which performance you’re trying to copy. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me will help you.

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Hey @jeffrey.turner welcome to the forum! Just for anyone ever reading this who may not know: the Song is in the key of B, ong is played on an A harmonica in 3rd position.

You are correct, the third line of the riff is -5 56 56 -56 56

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Hey other Jeff!

I think I saw the same dodgy video on Youtube. Luke’s tab is fine, as you would expect :slightly_smiling_face:

I found this tab for the song which has a button where you can select the harmonica part. I then transcribed the notes from guitar to the holes on my ‘A’ harmonica.

It might help because although it’s still not 100%, it isolates the harp. You have to click the ‘SYNTH’ button BTW.

I think part of the problem is that James Reyne is a bit sloppy on the last part of the riff, maybe…