Chords for MEAN MARY JAMES COTTON EYE JOE

_ _ _ _ _ Hold my little hoe down here, okay? _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ For years I toured the country with my brother playing historic music, Civil War era, [Ab] 1860s,
which is a long time ago for us.
_ All the history you guys [Eb] have here, we don't really count much.
_ _ [A] _ But [Abm] anyway, I teach all the old timey dances, and I've [Gb] got my hoop skirt hanging back in my closet.
I'll pull it up every so often [Eb] and teach a Virginia Reel and we'll [Gb] dance it.
This is what they would have danced a Virginia Reel back in the 1860s.
It's a medley of [Abm] Cotton Eye Joe, Falling Cabbage Down, [Ab] and Chicken Reel.
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_ _ _ _ So just find a man on the line, but right now I'm trying to see the dance,
and I'm trying to see the dance.
So I'm telling the boys and the girls, they didn't ask for the dance,
[E] the Virginia, to the Cotton Eye [D] Joe. _ _
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_ _ _ _ So I've been falling off today, and [E] she didn't believe she had the chance,
and she said, when she's wearing her pretty little [Gb] gal, the boys will pay for the cabbage down. _ _ _
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Now Farmer Brown began slightly [E] late, but they really knew [Eb] how to shake the bed,
so Farmer Brown led his bedcore, [G] and the dancer wrote a chicken [D] reel. _ _ _ _ _ _
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