Joe Bowers
Joe Bowers

Joe Bowers easy guitar chords by Pete Seeger

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    • Verse 1
    My 
    name 
    it is Joe 
    Bowers, 

    I"ve 
    got a brother 
    Ike, 

    I"m just 
    here from 
    Mis
    souri, 

    and 
    all the 
    way from 
    Pike; 

    I"ll tell 
    you why I left 
    there 
    and why I came 
    to roam, 


    And leave 
    my 
    aged parents 

    so 
    far 
    away from 
    home. 

    I used 
    to court a girl 
    there, her 

    name 
    was Sally 
    Black, 

    I asked 
    her if she"d marry, 

    she 
    said it was a 
    whack; 

    She says to me, "Joe 
    Bower
    s, 

    before 
    we"ve hitched for life, 

    You 
    ought to get a 
    little home 

    to keep your little 
    wife." 

    Says I, 
    "My dearest 
    Sally, oh 

    Sally, for 
    your 
    sake, 

    I"ll go 
    to 
    Cali
    fornia 
    and try 

    and 
    raise a stake." 

    Says 
    she to me, "Joe 
    Bowers, 

    you"re just the one 
    to win." 

    She gave 
    me a kiss to seal 
    the bar

    gain and 
    throwed a dozen 
    in. 

    I"ll never 
    for
    get my feel

    ings when 
    I bid adieu 
    to all. 

    Sal she 
    cotched me around 
    the neck, and I 

    began to 
    bawl. 

    When I began 
    they all 
    commenced, you never 
    heard the like, 


    How they 
    took on and 
    cried and cried 

    the day I left 
    old 
    Pike. 

    When I 
    got to this country, 

    I 
    had nary 
    a 
    red; 

    I had such 
    wolfish feelings, 

    I wished myself 
    most dead. 

    But the thoughts 
    of my dear 
    Sally 
    soon made 
    this feeling git, 


    And whispered 
    hope to 
    Bower

    s Lord, I 
    wish I had "em 
    yet. 

    At last I 
    went to 
    mining, 

    put in 
    my biggest licks, 

    Come down upon 
    the 
    boulders 
    just 

    like a thousand 
    bricks; 

    I worked 
    both late and early, 

    in rain, 
    in sun and snow, 

    I 
    was 
    working 
    for my Sally, 

    "twas 
    all the 
    same to Joe. 

    One day I got 
    a 
    letter 
    from 

    my dear 
    brother Ike, 

    It came 
    from old Missour
    i 

    all the way 
    from Pike. 

    It 
    taught 
    me the darndest 

    news 
    that 
    ever 
    you did hear, 

    My 
    heart it is 
    a- 
    breaking, 

    so please 
    ex
    cuse this 
    tear. 

    It 
    said my Sal 
    was false to 
    me, that her love 
    for 
    me had fled, 


    That she 
    had 
    gotten 
    married to 

    a butcher 
    whose hair was 
    red; 

    It told 
    me more than 
    that; it"s enough to make 
    me swear, 


    That Sal had had 
    a baby 

    and the 
    baby had 
    red 
    hair. 

    Now 
    I told 
    you 
    everything 

    about this 
    sad 
    sad affair, 

    About Sally"s marrying 
    the butcher 

    and the baby 
    had red 
    hair; 

    But 
    whether it was 
    a 
    boy or girl 

    the 
    letter never 
    said, 

    It 
    only said 
    the 
    baby"s 

    hair was inclined 
    to 
    be 
    red. 

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