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Bye Bye Blackbird

Music by R. Henderson, Words by M. Dixon - 1926

Verse:
Dm             F+	Dm7          G7	Gm7          C7	G7            Dm
A7	-	Dm	A7
Dm             F+	Dm7          G7	Gm7          C7	G7            Dm
A7	-	Dm	Bdim
C7		Bb            Bbm	F
C7	-	-	A7
Dm             F+	Dm7          G7	Gm7           C7	G7            Dm
G7	-	C7	-
Chorus:
F	Bb             F	Am            C7	Gm7          F
-	Bdim	Gm7          C7	-
Gm	C             Gm	C7             Am	C7
-	-	F	-
F7              Ab	F7	Cm	F#dim
Gm            Bbm	F              G7	Bbm	C7
F	Bb              F	Am             C7	Cm            D7
Gm	-               C7	F	-     (C7 to chorus)

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

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Verse:

Blackbird, Blackbird,  Singing the blues all day,

Right out side of my door.

Blackbird, Blackbird,  Why do you sit and say,

"There's no sunshine in store".

All thru the winter you hung around,

Now I begin to feel homeward bound.

Blackbird, Blackbird,  Gotta be on my way,

Where there's sunshine galore.

 

Chorus:

Pack up all my care and woe here I go singing low,

Bye Bye Blackbird.

Where somebody waits for me,  Sugar's sweet so is she,

Bye Bye Blackbird.

No one here can love and understand me,

Oh what hard luck stories they all hand me.

Make my bed and light the light,  I'll arrive late tonight,

Blackbird Bye Bye.

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Watch the Wineland Banjo Band Play "Bye Bye Blackbird" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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