Way Over Yonder In A Minor Key
words:Woody Guthrie, 1946 music:Billy Bragg, 1997
Capo 4, key of B for B Bragg, timing is 7/4
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I lived in a place called Okfuskee, and I had a little girl in a holler tree.
I said, little girl, it's plain to see, there ain't nobody that can sing like me,
Ain't nobody that can sing like me.
She said it's hard for me to see, how one little boy got so ugly.
Yes, my little girly, that might be, but there ain't nobody that can sing like me,
Ain't nobody that can sing like me.
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Way over yonder in the minor key, way over yonder in the minor key,
There ain't nobody that can sing like me.
We walked down by the Buckeye Creek, to see the frog eat the goggle eye bee.
To hear the west wind whistle to the east, there ain't nobody that can sing like me,
Ain't nobody that can sing like me.
Oh my little girly will you let me see, way over yonder where the wind blows free.
Nobody can see in our holler tree, and there ain't nobody that can sing like me,
Ain't nobody that can sing like me.
Her mama cut a switch from a cherry tree, and laid it on the she and me.
It stung lots worse than a hive of bees, but there ain't nobody that can sing like me,
Ain't nobody that can sing like me.
Now I have walked a long long ways, I still look back at my Tanglewood days.
I've led lots of girls since then to stray, saying, ain't nobody that can sing like me,
Ain't nobody that can sing like me,