Bonaparte's Retreat chords by Spade Cooley
Verse 1
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Say, Spade, don't you have
another male vocalist,
one that I haven't met?
We sure do, Bob,
and that's the boy that does the rhythm songs,
Spready Love.
Oh, you mean the one you call
Careless Love.
That's right, but there's not a thing careless
about the way he sings the tune.
Careless, meet Bob Lamont.
Hi, Bob.
Hello, Careless! Careless Love!
Say, Careless, what part of
the West are you from?
I'm from Spartanburg,
South Carolina. Honor.
Mighty fine country out there.
What was your first musical job?
Playing ukulele with a
Hawaiian beachcomber.
With that history,
how did you ever
get with a Western band?
Just lucky, I guess.
And I'm mighty lucky to have him,
too.
Freddie was in the Navy for over six years,
and when I heard him sing at a show
at the San Diego Naval Base
in 1946,
I told him right then
that I wanted him with my band
as soon as he got his discharge.
And I took him up on it last year.
And tonight Freddy's given us
one of his real specials,
an old English folk song
with new American words
and the name of the tune,
Bone of Hearts Retreat.
You know something,
this could easily be the theme song for the
United Nations.
An English folk tune
about a French emperor
played by a western band
and sung by a South Carolinian
who plays an Hawaiian ukulele.
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Verse 2
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That's the girl I love in
the town way down in Dixie
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Deep the stars
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above
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She was the sweetest
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girl I ever did see
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So I held her in my arms
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and told her of her many charms
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I kissed her while the fiddles played
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The bow and the farts re treat
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All the world was bright
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when I held her on that night
And I heard her say,
please don't ever go away
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So I held her in my arms
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and told her of her many charms
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I kissed her while the fiddles played,
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the bone, the partridge tree
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Let the girl I love in a town
way down in Dixie
Beneath the stars above,
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she was the sweetest girl I ever did see.
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So, I held her in my arms
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and told her of her many charms.
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I kissed her while the fiddles played,
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the bone and the parts we'd treat.
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All the world was bright
when I held her on that night.
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And I heard her say,
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please don't ever go away.
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So I held her in my arms
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and told her of her many charms,
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I kissed her while the fiddles played,
the Bonaparte's retreat.
Bonaparte's Retreat
Spade Cooley
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