Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue - 1998
{title: Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key}
{subtitle: Billy Bragg & Wilco}
{key: C}
{comment: Words by Woody Guthrie - Music by Billy Bragg}
{ci: Verse 1}
I [C]lived in a place called Olfus-[F]kee
And I had a little girl in a holler [C]tree
I said, little girl, it's plain to [F]see
There ain't nobody that can sing like [C]me
[Dm]Ain't nobody that can sing like [Am]me
{ci: Verse 2}
She [C]said it's hard for me to [F]see
How one little boy got so ug-[C]ly
Yes, my little girly that might [F]be
But there ain't nobody that can sing like [C]me
[Dm]Ain't nobody that can sing like [Am]me
{ci: Chorus}
[F]Way over yonder in the minor [C]key
[Dm]Way over yonder in the minor [C]key
[Dm]There ain't nobody that can sing like [Am]me
{ci: Verse 3}
We [C]walked on down by the buckeye [F]creek
To see the frog eat the goggle eyed [C]bee
To hear that west wind whistle to the [F]east
There ain't nobody that can sing like [C]me
[Dm]Ain't nobody that can sing like [Am]me
{ci: Verse 4}
[C]Oh my little girly will you let me [F]see
Way over yonder where the wind blows [C]free
Nobody can see in our holler [F]tree
And there ain't nobody that can sing like [C]me
[Dm]Ain't nobody that can sing like [Am]me
{ci: Chorus}
{ci: Verse 5}
Her [C]mama cut a switch from a cherry [F]tree
And laid it on the she and [C]me
It stung much worse than the hive of [F]bees
But there ain't nobody that can sing like [C]me
[Dm]Ain't nobody that can sing like [Am]me
{ci: Verse 6}
Now [C]I have walked a long long [F]ways
But I still look back to my tanglewood [C]days
I've led lots of girls since then to [F]stray
Saying, ain't nobody that can sing like [C]me
[Dm]Ain't nobody that can sing like [Am]me
{ci: Chorus}
[F]Way over yonder in the minor [C]key
[Dm]Way over yonder in the minor [C]key
[Dm]There ain't nobody that can sing like [Am]me [C]
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