Woody chords by
Bobby Bare
Bobby Bare

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Key: A major
Verse 1
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Now the first time I saw Woody,
he was standing in our yard.
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It was springtime 1935,
we was poor and times were hard.
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He said I'll pay for a room and board,
maybe a month or two.
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My name's Woodrow Guthrie,
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and I'm just a rambler through
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But call me Woody, my friends all do
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If you call me Woody,
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I might sing a little song for you
Now it was just my mom and me,
big house all alone
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My daddy had gone to fight a war
and just never made it home
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But each night old Woody'd
play his guitar
and make up songs to sing
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And when we'd sing that midnight special
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we would make them rafters ring
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And we'd get happy, but we understood
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Times were hard, but for a while,
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life was good
Mama, she took to Woody,
said she liked his singing style
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God, she looked so pretty
when Woody made her smile
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Taught me how to cuss and smoke
and sing and play guitar
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I ought to say a prayer to heaven
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and wish upon a star
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Yeah, I knew Woody and Mama
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had been ramblin' in the night
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I was only twelve years old,
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but I could see it in their eyes
Mama came to me one hot July day
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Said our Woody's leavin' son,
she wiped the tear away
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Woody said this ramblin' fever's
a mighty heavy load
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Then he picked up his guitar and his sack
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and rolled on down the road
Goodbye Woody,
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we know you're feelin' bad
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Goodbye, Woody,
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what a time we've had
Now many a year has come and gone
and I'm old but still alive
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My old mind has wandered
back
to the summer of thirty -five
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Time has taken everything,
one thing I still own
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I can still pick up my guitar
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and sing a Woody Guthrie song
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This land is your land, with a do -re -mi
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Let the midnight special shine as ever,
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love, and light on me
So long, it's been good to know you
Cause I'm goin' down the road
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feelin' bad with you
Outro 1
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