Git Along Little Dogies chords by Alan Lomax
Verse 1
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Doobie -tie -yi -y o,
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Get Along, Little Dogies,
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is one of the great cowboy songs,
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considered by many to be the most beautiful,
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certainly by Rose Trevanton,
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the Gypsy singer,
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from whom my father found the
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song in 1908 in Fort Worth.
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As I walked out one mornin' for pleasure
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I spied a cow puncher a -ridin' along
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His hat was throwed back
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and his spurs was a -jinglin'
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As he approached me,
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a -singin' this song,
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Whoopee -tie -yi -yo,
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get along, you little doggies,
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It's your misfortune an
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d none of my own,
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Whoopee -tie -yi -yo,
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get along, you little doggies,
for you know
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Wyoming will be your new home.
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Early in the spring we round
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up the doggies,
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mark them and brand them
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and bob off their tails.
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Round up the horses,
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load up the truck wagon,
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and throw them doggies out on the trail.
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And it's whoopin' and yellin'
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and drivin' them doggies
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For how I wish that you would go on
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It's whoopin' and yellin' and
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punchin' them doggies
For you know
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Wyoming will be your new home
Your mother,
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she's raised way down in Texas
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Where the ginseng, weed,
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and a sandbur's grow
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Now we'll fill you up on
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prickly pear and cola
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So you'll be ready for the trail to Idaho
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Or you'll be soup for Un
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cle Sam's engines
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It's beef, beef, beef, I hear them cry
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Get along, get along, get along,
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you little doggies
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For you'll be beef -steers by and by
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Oopitye -yi -yo, get along,
you little doggies
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It's your misfortune
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and none of my own
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Get along, you little doggies,
for you know
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Wyoming will be your
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new home.
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