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ADD: Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key (Guthrie) (48)

Lyr/Chords Add: WAY OVER YONDER IN THE MINOR KEY

04 Feb 02

Is it permissable to copy and paste from another web site - if so, chords below; if not could someone please delete this.

Allan

Intro

G C G

Verse
G C
I lived in a place called Okfuskee
C Cmaj9 G
and I had a little girl I a holler tree
G C
I said, little girl, it's plain to see,
C Cmaj9 G
there ain't nobody that can sing like me
D Em
Ain't nobody that can sing like me,

Verse
G C
She said it's hard for me to see
C Cmaj9 G
how one little boy got so ug ly
G C
Yes, my little girly, that might be,
C Cmaj9 G
but there ain't nobody that can sing like me
D Em
Ain't nobody that can sing like me,

Chorus
C G
way over yonder in the minor key
D Em
way over yonder in the minor key
D Em
there ain't nobody that can sing like me

Verse
G C
We walked down by the Buckeye Creek
C Cmaj9 G
to see the frog eat the goggle eye bee
G C
to hear the west wind whistle to the east,
C Cmaj9 G
there ain't nobody that can sing like me
D Em
Ain't nobody that can sing like me,

Verse
G C
Oh my little girly will you let me see,
C Cmaj9 G
way over yonder where the wind blows free
G C
Nobody can see in our holler tree
C Cmaj9 G
and there ain't nobody that can sing like me
D Em
Ain't nobody that can sing like me,

Chorus
C G
way over yonder in the minor key
D Em
way over yonder in the minor key
D Em
there ain't nobody that can sing like me

Instrumental
C G D Em D Em

Verse
G C
Her mama cut a switch from a cherry tree
C Cmaj9 G
and laid it on the she and me,
G C
It stung lots worse than a hive of bees
C Cmaj9 G
but there ain't nobody that can sing like me
D Em
Ain't nobody that can sing like me,

Verse
G C
Now I have walked a long long ways
C Cmaj9 G
and I still look back at my tanglewood days
G C
I've led lots of girls since then to stray
C Cmaj9 G
saying, ain't nobody that can sing like me
D Em
Ain't nobody that can sing like me,

Chorus
C G
way over yonder in the minor key
D Em
way over yonder in the minor key
D Em
there ain't nobody that can sing like me

C G
way over yonder in the minor key
D Em
way over yonder in the minor key
D Em
there ain't nobody that can sing like me
D Em
there ain't nobody that can sing like me

C G fade

D Em
way over yonder in the minor key
D Em
there ain't nobody that can sing like me
D Em
there ain't nobody that can sing like me

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