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BYE BYE BLACK BIRD
Music by R. Henderson, Words by M. Dixon - 1926
Verse:----------- ------------------ ------------------ ------------------
Dm         F+ Dm7       G7 Gm7       C7 G7          Dm
A7 - 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          Bbm 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:
Black -bird Black -bird sing -ing the blues all day
Right -out side of my door
Black -bird Black -bird Why do you sit and say
"There's no sun -shine in store"
All thru the win -ter you hung a -round
Now I be -gin to feel home -ward bound
Black -bird Black -bird got -ta be on my way
Where there's sun -shine ga -lore
 
Chorus:
Pack up all my care and woe here I go sing -ing low
Bye Bye Black -bird
Where some -bod -y waits for me sug -ar's sweet so is she
Bye Bye Black -bird
No one here can love and un -der stand me
Oh what hard luck stor -ies they all hand me
Make my bed and light the light I'll ar -rive late to -night
Black -bird Bye Bye
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Arranged by Jim Bottorff
 
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