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DINAH

Music by Harry Akst, Words by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young - 1925

Verse:
G	-	D7	-
G         E7	A7	-	D7
G	-	Bm	E7
D         Bm	Em	A7	D7
Chorus:
G	-	-	-
D7	-	G	D7
G	-	-	-
D7	-	G	-
Em	Eb+	Em	A7        D7
Em	A7	D7	-
G	-	-	-
D7	-	G	-  (D7  to chorus)

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

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Verse:

Carolina, gave me Dinah,

I'm the proudest one beneath the Dixie sun,

News is spreadin', 'bout a weddin',

I hear church bells ringin', Here's the song my heart keeps singin':

 

Chorus:

Dinah, is there anyone finer in the state of Carolina,

If there is and you know 'er, Show 'er to me?

Dinah, with her Dixie eyes blazin',

How I love to sit and gaze in to the eyes of Dinah Lee.

Ev'ry night why do I shake with fright,

Because my Dinah might change her mind about me.

Dinah, if she wandered to China,

I would hop and ocean liner, Just to be with Dinah Lee.

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Watch John Green's Banjo Ensemble play "Dinah" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com