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Thread #10884   Message #1036512
Posted By: Jim Dixon
15-Oct-03 - 10:23 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Bread and Gravy
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: BREAD AND GRAVY (Hoagy Carmichael)
Just to clear up any doubt or confusion, here's the Hoagy Carmichael song. It's a nice song in its own right.

Copied from http://www.iol.ie/~murphypj/FOLK/BRDGRAVY.TXT (with a few corrections made by me based on various sound samples).

BREAD AND GRAVY
(Hoagy Carmichael, 1935)
   G         B7    G                  C
Bread and gravy, lots of bread and gravy.
G       B7    G                C7
Beans and bacon, lots of beans and bacon.
E7       B7      G               C
No more frettin' since I've been gettin'
G                  D7          G      D7
Lots of bread and gravy all the time.
Peace and quiet, lots of peace and quiet.
Friends and money, lots of friends and money.
No more ramblin', I'm through with scramblin'.
Keep up with the Joneses all the time.
  G7  C         E7
Got no reason to be swell,
C                   A7
And my clothes all fit me well,
      G   Bf D7   G    G7
And I wear a nice ring.
C             E7
I'm as free as I can be,
C               A7
And my honey's lovin' me,
   G Bf         D7       G      D7
So I just can't keep from singin':
Bread and gravy, lots of bread and gravy.
Goodnight kisses, my love never misses.
No more blues now, no bad news now,
Just lots of bread and gravy all the time.

[Recorded by Ethel Waters and a few others.]