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SAN
Words and Music by Lindsay McPhail and Walter Michels - 1920

Verse:
Em	Am         B+   B7	Em         C	A7          C7
B7	-	Am	Cdim  B7
Em	B7	C7	B7
Em	Am         B+   B7	Em         C	A7          C7
B7	-	Am	Cdim  B7
Em	Am         B7   B+	Em         C7	B7          D7
Chorus:
G	Eb7	G	Eb7
G          Em	A7          D7	G           C7	G           C7
G	Eb7	G	Eb7
G       D#dim  Em	A7	D7         Am	F7          D7
G	G7	C	Eb7
G	G7	C	Eb7
G	Eb7	G           B7	E7
A7	Am         D7	G           C7	G   (D7 to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verse:

King San of Senegal,

Sat on the shore,

At Bulamay,

Singing a sad refrain,

To his dear queen who'd gone away.

This was his lay.

 

Chorus:

Oh, sweetheart Lona,  My darling Lona,

Why have you gone away?

You said you loved me,  But if you loved me,

Why did you act this way?

If I had ever been untrue to you,

What you have done would be the thing to do.

But my heart aches, dear,  And it will break, dear,

If you don't come back home again to San.

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Listen to Jim play "San" on the 5-string banjo (mp3)

 

Listen to the San Francisco Medicine Ball Band play "San" (youtube, timestamp 0:24)

 

Listen to the Sacramento Banjo Band play "San" (mp3)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com