The Jimmie Rodgers Blues Chords by Elton Britt

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_ Yodeling, _ _ [B] _ _ _
[E] I'm holy, _ _ _ _ _ that's the Jimmy _ _ _ [B] Rogers _ _ [E] blues. _ _ _ _
I can sing you the true love story _ of the greatest blue yodeling star.
_ _ _ _ With [A] the help of the titles of the songs he sang, like you and my [E] old guitar,
to yodeling.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] He _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
was born down in Mississippi, _ Jimmy Rogers was his name.
_ He _ left [A] his daddy and home and got the traveling blues while waiting for [E] a train to yodeling.
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He was working on the railroad, _ riding on the old choo _ _ _ choos.
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Away out on the mountain, when he got those breakman's [E] blues, to yodeling.
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_ He sang tea _ for Texas _ and tea for _ Tennessee. _ _ _ _ _
[A] And peach picking time in Georgia _ is gal picking time [E] for me.
My little blue eyed Jane de yodeling and my Carolina sunshine _ girl. _
_ _ My [A] little _ lady _ _ _ is the sweetest girl in [E] the world.
To yodeling. _ _
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Jimmy said I'm gonna get married and leave my little old home down in New Orleans.
_ _ _ _ [A] Build me a mansion out in Texas, _ the land of my boyhood [E] _ dreams. To yodeling. _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ Then _ _ came a lullaby yodeling, _ he had treasures _ untold. _
_ _ But [A] he never could lose those gambler's blues from rambling days [E] of old. To yodeling. _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ He'd _ take a big chief buffalo nickel _ and call up his wife and say, _ _
This _ [A] is Jimmy the Kid, I'm in the jailhouse now for my rough and rowdy [E] _ ways. To yodeling. _
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Any old time you'd see him, he'd be singing a brand new tune. _ _
_ _ _ [A] His train whistle blues still haunts me when the cactus is [E] in bloom.
_ The whole world shared his sorrow _ when he sang my time ain't long. _ _ _ _ _
[A] Then one day in New York City _ he sang his farewell [E] _ song.
To yodeling.
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_ _ I've got the G _
[B].B. _ _ [E] Blue. _ _
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_ _ _ Good _ morning captain, _ on earth we'll sing no more, no more.
_ _ But [Bb] Jimmy Rogers laughs through yodel, _ _ echoes on the golden [F] _ shores.
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] yodeling. _ _
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_ _ _ _ [F] _ Jimmy _
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[C] _ Rogers _ [F] _ Blues. _
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