title: Slipping Through My Fingers
key: Musical
harp type: Chromatic
genre: F
skill: Intermediate

Key of F Major
Range A3 to C5
Notations: none = blow – = draw
* = slide button in . = lower register
___ = sustain/hold ( ) = blow chord
-( ) = draw chord
-1 -1 2 2*_2*
School-bag in hand,__
2* 3 -3_-3 -3 -3* -3 3 2* 2
she leaves home__ in the ear-ly morn-ing,
-1 -1 2 2*_2*
wa-ving good-bye__
2* 3 -3*-3 3 2* -3_______3
with an ab-sent-mind-ed smile.____
-1 -1 2 2* 2* 3 -3___-3
I watch her go with a surge__
-3 -3* -3 3 2* 2
of that well-known sad-ness,
-1 -3*_-3* -3* -3 3 3
and I____ have to sit down
3 2* 2_____
for a while.
-1 -1 -3* -3* -3 -3 3 3 1 1 -3
The feel-ing that I’m los-ing her for-ev-er
-1 -1 -3* -3* -3 -3 3 3 1 1
and with-out real-ly en-ter-ing her world.
-1 -1 -3* -3* -3 -3__-3 3 3 -3* -3* -3
I’m glad when-ev-er I____ can share her laugh-ter,
1 1 3 3 2* 2*__2*____
that fun-ny lit-tle girl._____
-.3 1 2* -3 -3 3 3 2* 2*__2*
Slip-ping through my fin-gers all the time,__
4 -3 2* 2__2 4 -3 2 -1_-1 3____3
I try to cap – ture ev-‘ry min – ute,__
3 2* -1 1 2*
the feel-ing in it.
-.3 1 2* -3 -3 3 3 2* 2*____2*
Slip-ping through my fin-gers all the time,__
-.3 1 2* 3 -3 3 3 2* 2*_____2*
do I real-ly see what’s in her mind?__
4 -3 2* 2___2 4 -3 2 -1_-1 3_3
Each time I think I’m close to know – ing_
3 2* -1 1 2*
she keeps on grow-ing.
-.3 1 2* -3 -3 3 3 2* 2*_2*___
Slip-ping through my fin-gers all the time.___
-1 -1 2 2*___2*
Sleep in our eyes,_
2* 3 -3_-3
her and me___
-3 -3* -3 3 2* 2
at the break-fast ta-ble,
-1 – 2 2*____2*
bare-ly a-wake,__
-1 -1 2 2* 2* 3 -3__-3__
I let pre-cious time go by.____
-1 -1 2 2* 2* 3 -3___-3
Then when she’s gone, there’s that old____
-3 -3* -3 3 2* 2
mel-an-chol-y feel-ing
-1 -3*__3* -3* -3 3 3
and a____ sense of guilt I
3 2* 2*____
can’t de-ny.
-1 -1 -3* -3*-3 -3 3 3 1 1 -3
What hap-pened to the won-der-ful ad-ven-tures,
-1 -1 -3* -3* -3 -3 3 3 1 1
the plac-es I had planned for us to go?
-1 -1 -3* -3* -3 -3__-3
Well, some of that we did,__
3 3 -3* -3* -3
but most we did-n’t
1 1 3 3 2 2____2____
a why, I just don’t know._____
-.3 1 2* -3 -3 3 3 2* 2*_2*
Slip-ping through my fin-gers all the time,_
4 -3 2* 2 2 4 -3 2 1_1 3_3
I try to cap-ture ev-‘ry min-ute,__
3 2* -1 1 2*
the feel-ing in it.
-.3 1 2* -3 -3 3 3 2* 2*___2*
Slip-ping through my fin-gers all the time,__
-.3 1 2* -3 -3 3 3 2* 2*__2*
do I real-ly see what’s in her mind?_
4 -3 2* 2__2 4 -3 2 -1_-1 3___3
Each time I think I’m close to know – ing__
3 2* -1 -1 2*
she keeps on grow-ing.
-.3 1 2* -3 -3 3 3 2* 2*___2*
Slip-ping through my fin-gers all the time.__
-1 -1 -3* -3* -3 -3__-3__3 3 3____3
Some-times I wish that I_______ could freeze_
1 1_-3 -3__-3
the pic – ture__
-1 -1 -3* -3* -3 -3 2 3 1 1___1
and save it from the fun-ny tricks of time._
-.3 1 2* -3 -3* -3*__4___
Slip-ping through my fin-gers.____
Interlude:
-.3 1 2*-3 -3 3 3 2* 2* 4 -3 2* 2 4 -3 2 1_1
3 –(.41) –(.412) 3 –(.412) -1
-1 2* -(.2.3) 1 2* -3 -3 3 (321) 2* 2*__2*____
-1 -1 2 2*__2*
School-bag in hand,_
2* 3 -3
she leaves home
-3 -3* -3_-3 3 2*__2* 2
in the ear – ly morn – ing,
-1 -1 2 2*
wav-ing good-bye
2* 3 -3*-3 3 2* -3_______
with an ab-sent-mind-ed smile….