Chords for If I Could Only Learn To Yodel - with Sourdough Slim and Robert Armstrong

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_ _ Well now [G] comes the time in the workshop _ _ [Gm] where we kick it up a notch.
_ A lot of people out there coming up to me after the show last night and [N] asking me,
How do you yodel?
How do you do it?
I want to learn how to yodel.
I've always wanted to learn how to yodel.
Come on down [Gm] to the workshop tomorrow and I'll teach everybody. _
Yodeling [D] is wonderful.
[G#] There are many [F#m] benefits to yodeling that you're probably [N] not even aware of.
It's great for the digestion.
Did you know that?
Wonderful for the lungs.
It will expand the lungs.
_ _ _ _ And it is a great way to get a little privacy around the house. _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ It's [N] great that way.
_ _ Clear out a whole neighborhood if you get good enough. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ There's nothing to it.
It's very simple.
It's a simple matter of knowing your vowels and consonants.
Now listen up.
This is going to be great, especially this early in the festival.
_ This will be neat.
This will be known as the festival. _ _ _ _
Everywhere we went, people were yodeling. _ _ _
Simple matter of knowing your vowels and consonants.
You start out with the first vowel, E.
This is how I learned.
Now listen up.
Start out with your first vowel, E, and then with your regular voice,
and then you break your voice as you go to the A.
E to A.
_ How about A to E? _ _
A to E.
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_ _ [B] _ See [N] how you get that little break in there?
That's the most important thing.
You ready to give it a try?
I only ask you to go this far with the lesson.
If you don't want to go any farther, you don't have to.
_ But I think you owe it to yourself to at _ least_ _ _ _ _ _
Give it a try.
Here we go.
On the count of three, I'll be right there with you, A to E.
Here we go.
One, two, three.
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_ [N] Listen to that.
Nothing to it.
Fabulous.
_ This is great.
You guys are bachelors.
Being up in the hills like this, I guess that has something to do with it.
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] Now you throw the [B] word yodel in front of it.
It will sound like this.
Yodel-ee.
[G] Give it a try.
Yodel-ee. _
Beautiful.
All right.
We're halfway done with everything I know about yodeling.
I'm not kidding.
It's hard [D#] to believe, isn't it?
But it's true.
[N] It's absolutely true.
Halfway done with everything I know about yodeling.
The other important vowel is O.
Now this one feels great.
You just stretch it out.
O.
O.
_ O. _ _
O.
O. O.
O. O.
O.
O. O. O. O. O.
It's a little zen-like.
Isn't that great?
Throw the word yodel in front of that.
Yodel-oo.
_ Yodel [G]-oo.
_ Yodel-oo.
_ Perfect.
Perfect.
[D] See?
It feels great.
[N] Now here's where we really start getting somewhere, because we put the two together and it would sound like this.
Yodel-ee.
Yodel-oo.
All right.
Here we go.
Yodel-ee.
_ Yodel-oo.
_ Perfect.
And now we simply cap it off with a consonant.
You could use any consonant.
D, G, Z.
We use D.
It would sound like this.
Yodel-ee.
[E] _ [D#] Yodel-oo.
D.
All right.
Here we go.
Yodel-ee.
Yodel-oo.
D.
_ _ And that's all there is [N] to it.
How easy is that?
Oh, yeah.
Now we can get more professional.
_ _ _ _ Yodel-ee.
Yodel-oo.
D.
Yodel-ee.
Yodel-oo.
D.
_ Yodel-ee.
Yodel-oo.
D. _
Yodel-ee.
Yodel-oo. Yodel-ee.
Yodel-oo.
D.
[Em] _
[D] Huh?
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[C#] _ People are saying, guys, I hope [N] they're not paying that guy.
Anybody could do that.
_ _ Geez.
All [Dm] right.
We're going to do a little tune here,
[N] appropriately titled, If I Could Only Learn to Yodel.
And I'll cue you in towards the end,
those of you that are brave enough
and want to expound upon [G] what we learned.
I'll cue you in to when to [D#] jump in.
One, two, three.
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[D] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ I'm a-ding-ding in night
While the moon shines bright
[G] I'm a gal that I [D] adore
_ [G] She won't have me [D] any way [B] to see
[C#m] It hurts me more [A] and more
[D] To think she's in love with the only man
[G] From the hills to Kansas
[F#] _ _ _ [G] And you wonder, [D] what do you believe?
Yodel-ee.
[A] Yodel-ee.
Yodel [D]-oo.
_ [G] D.
If I could only learn [D] to yodel
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[D] _ _ _ Yodel-ee.
It's easy, they say, to go Yodel-ee.
With the yodel [A]-ee _ [D] _ _ Yodel-ee. Yodel-ee. _ _
[A] Yodel-ee.
Mouth into it.
Yodel-ee.
Yodel-ee.
Idle [D]-ee.
Yodel-ee. _ _
[G] Yodel-ee.
Yodel-ee-ee.
[D] Yodel-ee.
Yodel-ee.
[A] Yodel-ee-ee.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [C] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ [D] _ _ _
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[F#] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [B] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ There's a little old shy
What's calling me back
[G] To the place where I [D] belong
_ [G] I must admit [D] I [E] just [B] don't fit with [E] that gal
I've done [A] me wrong
So [Dm] I'm packing my bags
I'll be on my way
[Gm] To the land that's a [F#]-callin' me
[G] Oh you wonder if [D] I'm beautiful
_ _ _ [A] _ If [D] _ _ _ [G] I could only learn [D] to yodel
[A] With the yodel-ee-ee-ee [D]-ee-ee
_ It's easy they say to go
Yodel-ee-ay with [A] the yodel-ee
[D] Oh let's all give it a try
Here we go _ Come on [A] _ _ That's it
Yodel-ee-ay
Yodel-ee-ay
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[G] Stick with me now
[D] Yodel-ee _ _ -ay
_ Yodel _ [A]-ee _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _
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_ _ _ -ay Hey _ _
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_ Hey
Oh
Yodel-ee-ay _ _ _
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