Joe Bowers chords by
Pete Seeger
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Key: A minor•
Verse 1
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My name it is Joe Bowers,
D
D

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I"ve got a brother Ike,
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Am

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Dm
Dm

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I"m just here from Missouri,
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D

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Am
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and all the way from Pike;
I"ll tell you why I left there and why I came to roam,
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Am
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And leave my aged parents
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D

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so far away from home.
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I used to court a girl there, her
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D

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name was Sally Black,
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Am

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I asked her if she"d marry,
she said it was a whack;
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G

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D
D

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She says to me, "Joe Bowers,
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Am

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before we"ve hitched for life,
You ought to get a little home
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D

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to keep your little wife."
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F#
F#
2

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Bm
Bm
2

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Says I, "My dearest Sally, oh
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D

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Sally, for your sake,
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D
D

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F#
F#
2

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I"ll go to California and try
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and raise a stake."
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Says she to me, "Joe Bowers,
you"re just the one to win."
She gave me a kiss to seal the bar
D
D

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gain and throwed a dozen in.
Dm
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Am
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I"ll never forget my feel
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ings when I bid adieu to all.
Bbm
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D
D

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Sal she cotched me around the neck, and I
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began to bawl.
When I began they all commenced, you never heard the like,
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D

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How they took on and cried and cried
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the day I left old Pike.
When I got to this country,
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2

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Am
Am

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I had nary a red;
I had such wolfish feelings,
I wished myself most dead.
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But the thoughts of my dear Sally soon made this feeling git,
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And whispered hope to Bower
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s Lord, I wish I had "em yet.
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Bm
2

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At last I went to mining,
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D

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put in my biggest licks,
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D
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Come down upon the boulders just
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like a thousand bricks;
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I worked both late and early,
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in rain, in sun and snow,
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Am
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I was working for my Sally,
Bm
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D
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Am
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"twas all the same to Joe.
F#
F#
2

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One day I got a letter from
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D

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my dear brother Ike,
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G
G

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It came from old Missouri
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all the way from Pike.
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D
D

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It taught me the darndest
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Am
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news that ever you did hear,
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D

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My heart it is a- breaking,
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Am
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so please excuse this tear.
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It said my Sal was false to me, that her love for me had fled,
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Am
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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
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Bm
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and the baby had red hair.
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D
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Now I told you everything
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D
D

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about this sad sad affair,
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About Sally"s marrying the butcher
and the baby had red hair;
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D

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But whether it was a boy or girl
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the letter never said,
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It only said the baby"s
hair was inclined to be red.

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