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Just An Old Banjo

(Without Any Strings)

 

Words by Bartley Costello, Music by J. Rosamond Johnson and Rudy Vallee - 1934

Dedicated to Eddie Peabody By Rudy and Rosamond

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
F            F7	Bb	F  Db7  Gm  C7	F
Bb          F	C7        F	G7        C7	-
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
F	-           Bb	F	-
C7	-	F	-
-	-           Bb	F	-
C7	-	F	-             C7
Fm	-	-	-             C7
Bbm	-           C7	G7	C7
F	Bb	F	-
C7	-	F	-    (C7 to chorus)

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

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Verse:

I've a pal a -hang -ing there, On the wall with treas -ures rare.

I just sit and look and say, "Dear old pal, we've had our day."

 

Chorus:

Just An Old Ban -jo, With -out an -y strings,

And I Love it so! For the mem -'ries it brings,

Just An Old Ban -jo, That wakes up and sings,

Songs of long a -go, That I used to know.

It se -ems to me that ghost -like fin -gers,

Play each mel -o -dy that dreams and lin -gers,

On my old ban -jo. And oh! how it rings,

Just An Old Ban -jo, With -out an -y strings.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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