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Kentucky Babe

Words by Richard Henry Buck, Music by Adam Geibel - 1896

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
C           Am	C           Am	C	G7
Dm         G7	Dm	D7	G
C	Dm          G	C	Dm        G
C           Ab7	C          Ab7	G	D7         G7
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
C	G7	C           Am	C           Am
Dm	G7	Dm         G7	C
Ab	C	Ab	C
A7	Dm         G7	C	-     (repeat all)

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

Note:  This is a slow 4/4 song with an uptempo beat. Count on the bass notes.

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Verse:

Skeet - ers am a hum - mm' on the hon - ey- suck - le vine,  Sleep, Ken - tuck - y Babe!
Sand - man am a - com - in' to this lit - tle babe of mine,  Sleep, Ken - tuck - y Babe!
Si - v'ry moon am shin - in' in the heav - ens high a - bove.  Bob - o - link am pin - in' for his lit - tle la - dy love.
You is might - y luck - y,  Babe of old Ken - tuck - y,  Close your eyes and sleep.

 

Chorus:

Fly a - way,  Fly a - way,  Ken - tuck - y babe,  Fly a - way to rest,
Fly a - way,  Lay your lit - tle wool -y head on yo' mam - my's breast,
(Hum) (Hum) (Hurn) (Hum) (Hum) (Hum) (Hum) (Hum)
Close your eyes in sleep.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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