Tabs for "Come Little Children" from the movie Hocus Pocus, as performed by Erutan (aka Katethegreat19).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKlsUrfbiE0
NOTE: * This song is played in a 3/4 time signature.
* No guitar is used in Erutan's song. The fingerpicking parts of this tab were made using the the
violin's pizzicato and celesta as a guide. As such, it's an interpretation. None of it is official.
* Should you prefer to play this song without fingertapping, just refer to one of the other verses. It
contains the very same chords.
* None of the chords in this tab are official by the way, I did all of this by ear.
Am G6/9/E Em9/11 Dm6/9/E Em11#5 E C6/9/E
xooooo oooooo oooooo oooooo oooooo oooooo oooooo
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2||XX|| 2||X||= 2||X||X 2|||X|| 2|||||| 2|XX||| 3||||X|
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Cmaj9/13/E Em Bm Dm B E7
oooooo oooooo xooooo xxoooo xooooo oooooo
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3|||||| 2|XX||| 2|===== 2|||X|| 2|===== 2|X||||
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5|||X|| 4|||||| 4||XX|| 4|||||| 4||XXX| 4||||||
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[Intro]
Am
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
B|-------------|-1.----------|-------------|-1.----------|
G|-------------|-2.----------|-------------|-2.----------|
D|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
A|-0.----------|-------------|-0.----------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
[Verse]
Come little children I'll take thee a - way
Am G6/9/E Em9/11
E|-------------|-------------|---------3---|-2.----------|
B|-------------|-1.----------|-------------|-3.----------|
G|---------2---|-2.----------|-----0-------|-------------|
D|-----2-------|-------------|-2-----------|-------------|
A|-0-----------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
into a land of enchant- ment.
Dm6/9/E Em11#5 E
E|---------1---|-0.----------|-------------|-0.----------|
B|-------------|-1.----------|---------0---|-0.----------|
G|-----2-------|-------------|-----1-------|-------------|
D|-0-----------|-------------|-2-----------|-------------|
A|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
Come little children the time's come to play
Am G6/9/E Em9/11
E|-------------|-------------|---------3---|-2.----------|
B|-------------|-1.----------|-------------|-3.----------|
G|---------2---|-2.----------|-----0-------|-------------|
D|-----2-------|-------------|-2-----------|-------------|
A|-0-----------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
here in my garden of sha-
Dm6/9/E Em11#5 C6/9/E Cmaj9/13/E
E|---------1---|-0.----------|-0-----------|
B|-------------|-1.----------|-3-----3---0-|
G|-----2-------|-------------|---------5---|
D|-0-----------|-------------|-------------|
A|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|
[Link]
Am
-dows. (Whohoo whohoo)
[Verse]
Am
Follow sweet children. I'll
Em Bm
show thee the way,
Dm Am B E
through all the pain and the sorrows.
Am
Weep not poor children, for
Em Bm
life is this way,
Dm Am E
murdering beauty and pas-
[Link]
Am
-sions. (Whohoo whohoo)
[Verse]
Am
Hush now dear children. It
Em Bm
must be this way, to
Dm Am B E
weary of life and deceptions.
Am
Rest now my children, for
Em Bm
soon we'll away
Dm Am E
into the calm and the qui-
[Link]
Am Am
-et. (Who-o-o-o) (Who-o-o-o)
[Instrumental]
Am Em Bm
(Who-o-o-o) (Who-o-o-o)
Dm Am B E
(Who-o-o-o) (Who-o-o-o)
Am Em Bm
(Who-o-o-o) (Who-o-o-o)
Dm Am E
(Who-o-o-o-o-o-o)
[Link]
Am Am
[Verse]
Come little children I'll take thee a - way
Am G6/9/E Em9/11
E|-------------|-------------|---------3---|-2.----------|
B|-------------|-1.----------|-------------|-3.----------|
G|---------2---|-2.----------|-----0-------|-------------|
D|-----2-------|-------------|-2-----------|-------------|
A|-0-----------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
into a land of enchant- ment.
Dm6/9/E Em11#5 E
E|---------1---|-0.----------|-------------|-0.----------|
B|-------------|-1.----------|---------0---|-0.----------|
G|-----2-------|-------------|-----1-------|-------------|
D|-0-----------|-------------|-2-----------|-------------|
A|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
Come little children the time's come to play
Am G6/9/E Em9/11
E|-------------|-------------|---------3---|-2.----------|
B|-------------|-1.----------|-------------|-3.----------|
G|---------2---|-2.----------|-----0-------|-------------|
D|-----2-------|-------------|-2-----------|-------------|
A|-0-----------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
here in my garden of shaaa - - aaa -
Dm6/9/E Em11#5 C6/9/E Cmaj9/13/E
E|---------1---|-0.----------|-0-----------|-------------|
B|-------------|-1.----------|-3-----------|-------3---0-|
G|-----2-------|-------------|-------------|---------5---|
D|-0-----------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
A|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
[Link]
Am
-dows... (Whohoo whohoo)
[Ending*]
Am Am E7 Am
(Who-o-o-o) (Who-o-o-o)
* To best play the ending, slow down the pace when you get to the second set of "whoos", let E7 ring on your
last upstroke, then end on Am with a single downstrum.
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