Country & Western Songbook Sheet Music Score

KENTUCKY WALTZ
Bill Monroe

We were (C) waltzing that night in Kentucky
Beneath the beautiful (C/E) Har-(EbDim)-vest (G7) moon
And I was the boy that was lucky
But it all (G+) ended too (C) soon
As I sit here alone in the moonlight
I see your (C7) smiling (F) face
And I long once (D7/F#) more (F#dim) for (C/G) your em-(A7)-brace
And that (D7) beautiful Ken-(G7)-tucky (C) Waltz.

Note.
The original "Kentucky Waltz" was one of some 75 instrumentals
that Bill Monroe wrote before he tried his hand at lyric writing.
The 1934 version helped established the Monroe Brothers as a major
country act and became a mainstay in Bill's repertory when he formed
his famous Blue Grass Boys in 1938. He added a lyric to the tune
and scored another success with it in 1946, but it was Eddy Arnold's
1951 recording that became a best seller. Monroe was born in Kentucky,
and his "bluegrass style" of unamplified instrumentals was a dirrect
of the string bands that flourished in the 1920s and featured a
solo fiddle.