Betsy chords by
Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby
The Andrews Sisters
The Andrews Sisters

N/A
Key: Bb major
Verse 1
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G
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A
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C
D
D
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C
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D
Betsy, sweet Betsy,
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G
Em
Em
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G
my fair prairie rose,
A
A
So slender and pale in your
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D
mail -order clothes,
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C
Bm
Bm
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D
All decked out in ruffles an
G
G
d ribbons and rings,
C
C
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G
You're just like an angel,
only where are your wings?
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C
G
G
Oh, Betsy, sweet Betsy
Em
Em
G
G
C
C
Let's change her name and
stake a claim
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G
C
C
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G
where cares will never find us
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C
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G
Oh, Betsy, sweet Betsy
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C
We'll hitch our dreams to a 20 -mule team
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G
C
C
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G
and leave the trail behind us
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D
Starch -collared Parson lives
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G
down by the gulch
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A
He'd hitch us right up, but
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D
he charges too much
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C
Bm
Bm
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C
G
G
The old circuit rider will be just as nice
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C
G
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He'll splice for half price
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C
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and bring his own bag of rice
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C
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G
Oh, Betsy, sweet Betsy
Em
Em
G
G
We'll jingle spurs on
cockle burrs
where prairie dogs won't mind us
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C
G
G
Oh, Betsy, sweet Betsy
Em
Em
G
G
C
C
G
G
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C
With nothing to eat but buffalo meat,
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G
no cares will ever find us
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C
D
D
G
G
Oh, Betsy, do tell what a swell howdy -do
Your cousins by dozens
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C
D
D
will buy presents for you
Cousins by the dozens,
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G
C
C
Bm
Bm
we'll have your old Aunt Aggie
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G
C
C
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G
And my Uncle John
He's got some acres
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D
G
G
I can use when he's gone
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C
Oh, Betsy, oh my Betsy,
you're the sweetest little Betsy
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G
I could ever find
Em
Em
C
C
D
D
And you'll be mine
Yes, I'll be yours,
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G
let's change your name
C
C
And stake out a claim
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G
C
C
G
G
Em
Em
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G
where cares will never find us
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C
G
G
C
C
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G
Em
Em
C
C
G
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C
C
G
G
D
D
Betsy, sweet Betsy,
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G
my fair prairie rose
A
A
So slender and pale in your
D
D
mail -order clothes
C
C
Bm
Bm
All decked out in ruffles
C
C
G
G
and ribbons and rings
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C
You're just like an angel on deck
D
D
G
G
C
C
Where are your wings, oh Betsy?
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G
Em
Em
Sweet Betsy
G
G
C
C
Let's change your name and
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G
C
C
stake out a claim
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G
Where cares will never find us,
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C
whoopee tee
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G
D
D
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G
There's love in them hills far away,
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Em
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G
C
C
Whoopee tee, whoopee tee,
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G
C
C
just waitin' for Betsy
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G
C
C
D
D
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G
and me.

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