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Hello @andrewdwashorgmail-com , welcome to TAC. I hope you have a smooth journey here. Tabs are constructed on 6 horizontal lines across the page. Each line represents a string on a guitar. Going from bottom to top, the bottom line represents the loE (6th) string, the next one going up is for the A (5th) string, then the D (4th) string, G (3rd) string, B (2nd) string and the top line represents the hiE (1st) string. Tabs are read from left to right, just like a book. When you see a number on one of the lines, it indicates the fret # (note) to play on that particular string. When you see 2 or more numbers stacked on top of each other (a vertical stack), that indicates that you are to play those notes together at the same time. So a C chord on a tab would have a 3 on the A (5th) string line, a 2 on the D (4th) string line, a 0 on the G (3rd) string line (indicating an open string), a 1 on the B (2nd) string line, and a 0 on the hiE (1st) string line, and those numbers would be stacked vertically on top of each other, and strummed together at the same time.
I hope this helps🙂