Chords for Riley Baugus - Undone in Sorrow - Midwest Banjo Camp 2014

But I'm going to play you a tune that [E] _ _
comes from a wonderful contemporary old-time musician.
A lot of people think that old-time music stopped being created along about 1938.
_ A lot of people think that, well, if you play a song that's new and call it old-time, well,
it's a new song.
It's not old-time.
It can't be old-time.
It's not old.
Well, this young lady, I'm sorry, she's passed away now, her name was Ola Belle Reed, _ she
wrote old-time music.
_ And she wrote songs _ _ about the mountains where she came from.
And it just so happens she came from the exact same mountains as I do, from the Blue Ridge
Mountains in North Carolina.
She was from Ashe County, North Carolina, right across the New River from Allegheny
County where my people are from.
_ _ And I've met some relatives lately that are related to Ola Belle, _ and they're related
to me, which makes me think that I'm probably related to Ola Belle Reed.
Just not sure whether it's by blood or by marriage or both. _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
That kind of thing happens down there in them hollers, you know.
[E] _ _ _
_ [G] _ It's at that point that I usually turn to my wife and go, ain't that right, [Ab] sis?
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [G] This is a, _ [E] _ _ [G] Ola Belle wrote songs about her life in those mountains and situations that
are normal to the human condition, you know.
This particular song is one called Undone in Sorrow, and it's that typical story of
boy meets girl, falls in love with the girl, the girl falls in love with the boy.
He goes away to earn his fortune so that he can come back and marry her, only to come
back home and discover that _ _ while he's been [Ab] away, she's died.
_ _ It's a sad little song.
_ _ [G]
And I hope y'all enjoy it. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Over yonder in the graveyard, where the _ wild, wild flowers grow, _ there they lay, _ my own true lover.
She's gone from me _ _ forevermore.
_ [E] _ _ [Em] _
She was fairer than the sweetest [G]
flowers, restless _ as the wildest wind, [Em] born with love
deep as [G] the ocean.
That was [Em] the girl [D] [Em] that I didn't win.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [B] _ [E] _
_ Left [C] her there back [G] in the mountain, see the [Ab] _ _ [G] world's richest gain.
[Em] When I return, _ no earthly treasures [E] could ease his heart [Em] so full of pain.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Way [C] up high upon [G] that mountain, beneath that _ little mound of clay, _ [D] the girl [Em] that I [G] returned
to marry, so still among [Gbm] the [Em] flowers that lay.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
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_ _ _ _ I'll go away [Cm] _
and I'll [G] wander, lay [C] aside my earth again.
_ [Em] I'll not end as a man with [G] riches, _ undone in [E] sorrow.
Oh, [Em] I'll remain _ undone in [D] _
sorrow.
I'll [Em] remain. _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ Thank you very much. _