THE STORMS ARE ON THE OCEAN NOTATIONS

Hi Rodger. Another member has contacted me about some help with this tune. I'll put something together and post soon.
It's not a hard tune. My gymnastics with the harp switching and chords are not neccessary. Also this tune sounds great at a slow tempo. My examples were hastily put together experiments and should not be considered the best or only way to play this.
I'm sure other members will help out as the month goes by if more specific questions arise. We will make sure anybody who wants to play the songs of the month will get a chance to succeed.

I looked at your attachment. That version is perfectly fine to learn if you want, but it's a bit different than the way I play it. This is common with folk music. Often the people who composed or recorded the songs did not read music. People played by ear. As the tune is passed around minor variations creep in. That is why I posted several YouTube versions of these songs. Listen to them, and then play what YOU hear. Of course that's not much help if you are not yet playing by ear! Don't worry, we will navigate this (nautical reference, since we are on the ocean). We have an entire month.

Sebastian posted a slightly different notation for this song in the thread I made about the Echo Harp. His version is closer to mine. But you don't need to play it exactly like I do. Here is a link to that thread:
folkharmonica.freeforums.net/thread/551/hohner-echo-bb
He has notation in F and in G. I was able to download both to see them larger. They are simpler versions than the one you are using. I would recommend you use that version to start.

Your tab for the notation you used appears correct to me. In the last line, the first note, there is a C natural. All the C notes in the key of D are sharp. So you will not have that note on your diatonic harmonica. Don't worry. It's not needed. Just ignore it and stay with the last note of the third line. That extra note in not in the version Sebastian notated or the version I played.
The notation you have is in the key of D. However, tab does not indicate key. If you play that same tab on a C harmonica you will be playing in C. Play the same tab on a G harmonica and you are playing in G.
    Many recordings of this song done later are slower. The old 10 inch 78 rpm records could hold about 3 minutes of music. The bigger 12 inch ones could go 3 1/2 minutes. This song has a lot of verses. Recording was expensive so they tried to do it in one take. You couldn't record over the tape again, it wasn't tape! My guess is that they went fast enough to make sure they got the entire song on one record the first take. Later recordings didn't have this time constrant.