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Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Words and Music by Bob Nolan - 1934
 Verse:
C - F C
G7 - C -
F C               A7 D7 G
 Chorus:
F -                F7 E -                  E7
F C           C#dim G7 C
F -                F7 E -                  E7
F C           C#dim G7 C
Fm6          G7 C Am6            B7 Em               B7 
F -                F7 E -                  E7
F C           C#dim G7 C      (C7 to chorus)
8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.
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Verse:
I'm a roaming cowbow riding all day long,
Tumbleweeds around me, sing their lonely song.
Nights under neath a prairie moon, I ride alone and sing a tune.
 
Chorus:
See them tumbling down, Pledging their love to the ground,
Lonely but free I'll be found, Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds.
Cares of the past are behind, Nowhere to go, but I'll find, Just where the trail will wind,
Drifting along with the tumbling tumble weeds.
I know when night has gone that a new world's born at dawn,
I'll keep rolling along, Deep in my heart is a song, Here on the range I belong,
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds. tumbleweeds.
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Watch Steve Caddick and the Avalon group perform "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" (youtube)
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Arranged by Jim Bottorff
 
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