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A Drunkards Child by Jimmie Rodgers
A Drunkards Child
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:C
Capo:no capo
(3/4)
[Intro]
| C | C | G | C |
| C | C | D7 | D7 |
| D7 | G7 | G7 | C |
(yodel)
[Verse 1]
G7
My father is a drunkard, my mother she is dead
G C
And I am just an orphan child, no place to lay my head
C7 F
All through this world I wander, they drive me from their door
C G7 C
Someday I'll find a welcome, on heaven's golden shore
[Verse 2]
G7
Now if to me you'll listen, I'll tell a story sad
C
How drinking rum and the gambling hell, have stoled away my dad
C7 F
My mother she is in heaven, where God and the angels smile
C G7 G C
And now I know she's watching, her lonely orphan child
[Break]
| C | C | C | D7 |
| D7 | D7 | G7 | G7 |
| C | C |
(yodel)
[Verse 3]
G7
We were once so happy and had a happy home
C
'Till daddy he went to drinking rum and then he gambled some
C7 F
He left my darling mother, she died of a broken heart
C G7 C
And as I tell my story, I see your teardrops start
[Verse 4]
G7
Don't weep for me and mother, although I know it is sad
G C
But try to get someone to cheer and save my poor lonely dad
C7 F
I'm awful cold and hungry, she closed her eyes and sighed
C G7 G C
Then those who heard her story, knew the orphan child had died
[Outro]
| C | C | C | D7 |
| D7 | D7 | G | G |
| C | C |
(yodel)
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