Man, what service! "Ask and you shall receive," indeed.

I coulda and probably shoulda looked up those tabs myself via Google or something, but I wasn't yet real serious about knuckling down to (re)learn this quite yet. When I saw this thread, though, I couldn't help reading it and then adding my two cents' worth.

Now, I suppose, I'll have to buckle down and learn to play this once again, sooner rather than later.

That instrumental "third part" is not by any means the most difficult part of Candyman to play, but it is the easiest to omit while one is learning the verses and bridge. The tab looks about right to me at first glance; I'll check into it more closely soon.

What *is* the most difficult part of Candyman? The opening measure is very tricky rhythmically, and the E-chord-plus-high-A ("spider chord") that follows later in the verse is probably the most physically difficult left-hand reach in the piece. I "know" (remember) how to play it, but right now I can't actually *do* it -- not quickly enough, anyway.