Prairie Pedal — Songbook

Miss Me When I'm Gone

Carter Family

Key: A

AYou're going to miss me when I'm gone

You're going to Dmiss me when I'm Agone

You know, you're going to miss me when I'm Egone

AYou're going to miss me by my walk

You're going to Dmiss me by my talk

You Aknow, you're going to Dmiss me when I'm Agone

You're going to miss me by my hair

You're going to miss me everywhere

You know, you're going to miss me when I'm gone

You're going to miss me by my knees

You're going to miss me if you please

You know, you're going to miss me when I'm gone

Oh when I'm Dgone, When I'm Agone

You know, you're going to miss me when I'm Egone

You're going to Amiss me by my walk

You're going to Dmiss me by my talk

You know, you're going to Emiss me when I'm Agone

Lonesome Road Blues

traditional

Key: A

No chord chart available.

Lonesome Road Blues

traditional

Key: A

No chord chart available.

Green Back Dollar

traditional

Key: A

No chord chart available.

Standing on the Mountain

Jim & Jesse

Key: A

No chord chart available.

Feast Here Tonight

Traditional

Key: A

AThere's a rabbit in the log and I ain't got my dog

How will I get him I Eknow

I'll Aget me a briar and twist it in his hair

That Eway I'll get him I Aknow

I Dknow (yes I know) I Aknow (I surely know)

That's how I'll get him I Eknow

I'll Aget me a briar and twist in his hair

That way I'll Eget him I Aknow

I'll build me a fire and I'll cook that old hare

Roll him in the flames and make him brown

Have a feast here tonight while the moon is shining bright

And find me a place to lie down

To lie down (to lie down) to lie down (to lie down)

Find me a place to lie down

Have a feast here tonight while the moon is shining bright

And find me a place to lie down

I'm going down that track with my coat and my bag

Soles on my shoes are nearly gone

A little ways ahead there's a farmer's shed

That's where I'll rest my weary bones

Weary bones (weary bones) weary bones (you lazy bones)

That's where I'll rest my weary bones

A little way's ahead there's a farmer's shed

That's where I'll rest my weary bones

Good Ole Mountain Dew

traditional

Key: A

There's a Avending machine

down the road here from me

where you Dput in a quarter or Atwo

You put your money in

and before you begin

you're chugging that Egood ole mountain Adew

They call it that ole mountain dew

And them that refuse it are few

I'll hush up my mug if you'll fill up my jug

With that good ole mountain dew

My uncle Mort he's sawed off and he's short

He measures bout four foot two

But he thinks he's a giant when you give him a pint

Of that good old mountain dew

My brother Bill's got a house on the hill

where he buys it by the case or two

And the buzzards in the sky get so sick they can't fly

from smelling that good ole mountain dew

Angel Band

traditional

Key: A

AMy latest sun is Dsinking Afast,

My race is Enearly Arun,

My longest trials Dnow are Apassed,

My triumph Ehas Abegun

EOh come angel Aband,

ECome and around me Astand,

DBear me away on your Asnow white wings,

To my immortal EhomeA

DBear me away on your Asnow white wings,

To my Eimmortal Ahome

Oh, bear my loving heart to him

Who bled and died for me,

Whose blood now cleanses from all sins,

And give me victory

I've almost reached my heavenly home,

My spirit loudly sings,

The holy ones, behold they come,

I hear the noise of wings

Atlantic City

Bruce Springsteen

Key: A

No chord chart available.

Who's That Knocking At My Window

Carter Family

Key: D

No chord chart available.

Miss Ferris

John Hartford

Key: D

Now DI had a teacher when GI went to school,

She loved the river, and she taDught about it too.

I'se a Gpretty bad boy, but she cDalled my bluff,

With her gDreat big collection of stGeamboat stuff. Oh, yDeah!

She had log-books and bells and the things like that,

And she knew the old captains and where they were at.

She rode the Alabama and the Gordon C. Green,

As the Cape Girardeau, she was later renamed, Uh-huh.

But her vGery favorite, as you all know,

Was the GoDlden Eagle, Captain Buck's old boat.

ThGis old stern wheeler sank and went to heaven,

When DI was in the fourth grade, in nAineteen forty-seven, Uh-huh!

Well, now, fast people in St. Louis society

A-takin' a trip on the Mississippi

Sleepin' in their bunks after an after-dinner drink

They didn't think the boat would sink. Oh, no!

Well, I know Captain Buck was a very sad man

When that old wooden hull went into the sand

And Miss Ferris was sad for sure

But immediately, her mind went to work. Oh, yeah!

Well, she did some politicking that was tricky and hard

And she got the pilot house for the schoolhouse yard

And so, instead of studying, I became a dreamer

Dreaming 'bout boats and the Mississippi River. Uh-huh.

I had to work real hard to get my school work done

Cause you could not fool Miss Ferris none;

And, if I went to sleep or I were not supposed to talk

Oh, she was a dead shot with a little piece of chalk. Uh-huh!{soc}

Oh me, oh my, how the time does fly.

Time and the river keep a-rollin' on by.

Now, I am not a student and she is not a teacher

But, we both still love the Mississippi River. Uh, huh.

On This Cold Prison Wall

George Tolbert

Key: D

No chord chart available.

Tunes

Flop Eared Mule

traditional

Key: D

No chord chart available.

Sarah Armstrongs Tune

Sarah Armstrong

Key: D

No chord chart available.

Snake River Reel

Peter Lippincott

Key: D

No chord chart available.

New Five Cents

traditional

Key: D

No chord chart available.

Darling Corey

traditional

Key: C

No chord chart available.

Tunes

Cold Frosty Morning

traditional

Key: G

A part

Am G

Am G Am

B part

Am G

Am C D Am G Am

The Cuckoo

traditional

Key: G

GmOh the cuckoo, she's a pretty bird,

and she warD7bles, as she Gmflies

And she never, hollers cuckoo,

until the 4th D7day, of Gmuly

Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds,

I knowed you from old

You rob my, poor pockets,

of my silver, and my gold

Going to build me a log cabin

on a mountain so high,

So I can see Kevin

as he goes on by

I played cards in England

I played cards in Spain

I'll bet you $100

I'll beat you next game

Lonesome Valley

traditional

Key: G

You gotta Gwalk that lonesome valley

You gotta Dwalk it by Gyourself

Ain't nobody Celse can walk it Gfor you

You gotta Dwalk it by Gyourself

They say John, he was a Baptist

He ate locusts and honey too

But he had to walk that lonesome valley

And you will have to walk it too

You gotta sleep in that lonesome graveyard

You gotta sleep there by yourself

Can't nobody else sleep there for you

You gotta sleep there by yourself

You know your mama truly loves you

And your woman she does too

Though they may beg you to go with them

You know they can not go for you

Hop High Lulu

traditional

Key: G

GWell where did you get them Fhigh top Gshoes?

And that dress that you Fwear so Gfine?

I got my shoes from a Frailroading Gman

And my dress is from a driver Fin the Gmine

Chop high, hop high

Hop high my Dlulu Ggirl

Chop high, hop high

Hop high my Dlulu Ggirl

Well where have you been my pretty lulu girl?

Where have you been so long?

Well I've been in the pen with the rough and rowdy men

And honey I'm goin' back again

Well I'll pawn you my watch and I'll pawn you my chain

I'll pawn you my gold wedding ring

To pay my little lulu girl's fine

I'll pawn you my wagon and my team

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

The Carter Family

Key: G

I was Gstanding by my window

On one Ccold and cloudy Gday

when I saw that hearse come rolling

for to carry my Dmother aGway

Will the Gcircle be unG7broken,

By and Cby, Lord, by and Gby?

There's a better home a-waiting,

In the sky, Lord, Din the Gsky.

Lord I told that undertaker

undertaker please drive slow

for this body you are hauling

Lord, I hate to see her go

I will follow close behind her

try to hold up and be brave

but I could not hide my sorrow

when they laid her in her grave

Policeman

traditional

Key: G

GPoliceman come, knock on my door this morning

CPoliceman come, knock on my door this Gmorning

CPoliceman come, Gknock on my door

Dshot him in the head with Cmy .44 this Gmorning

I've got a secret I ain't gonna tell...

Keep my whiskey in a coconut shell

Down went the trigger, bang went the gun...

Should have seen him run

Summertime

George Gershwin

Key: G

EmSummertime,

and the livin' is easy

Am7Fish are jumpin'

and the Emcotton is B7high C7 B7

EmYour daddy's rich,

and your momma's good lookin'

So Ghush little baby,

C7don't B7you Emcry

One of these mornings,

you're gonna rise up singing

Then you'll spread your wings

and you'll take to the sky

But till that morning,

there's a nothin' can harm you

With daddy and mommy

by your side

All You Fascists Bound To Lose

Woody Guthrie

Key: G

I'm gonna Gtell all you fascists,

you may be surprised

CPeople all over this world

are getting Gorganized

You fascists are bound to Glose

DAll you fascists are bound to lose

You fascists are bound to lose

You're bound to lose, you fascists

Are bound to Glose

Race hatred cannot stop us,

this one thing I know

Poll tax and Jim Crow and greed

have got to go

People of every color marching

side by side

Marching across these fields

where a million fascists died

I'm going into this battle,

take my union gun

Gonna end this world of slavery

before this war is won

Green Icy Mountain

Traditional

Key: G

I'm Ggoing across that green icy mountain

Dmountain, mounGtain

I'm going across that green icy mountain

lest I take Dsick and Gdie

I'm going to see my lover

lover, lover

I'm going to see my lover

lest I take sick and die

She told me that'd she always love me

love me, love me

She told me that'd she always love me

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She threw her arms around me

around me, around me

She threw her arms around me

like a vine around a gum

Worried Man's Blues

traditional

Key: G

No chord chart available.

Little Girl & Dreadful Snake

traditional

Key: G

No chord chart available.

Highway Home

traditional

Key: G

Black smoke a-rising and it surely is a train

Surely is a train, Lord, it surely is a train

Black smoke a-rising and it surely is a train

I'm on my long journey home

Lost all my money but two dollar bill

Two dollar bill, Lord, two dollar bill

Lost all my money but two dollar bill

I'm on my long journey home

GTraveling the highway home

I'm Ctraveling the highway Ghome

Oh narrow's the way thank God I can say

I'm traveling the Dhighway Ghome

Going toward the sunset of time

Traveling the highway home

Rid this world of sin far behind

Traveling the highway home

Well ol' Satan said I’d never be

Traveling the highway home

When I resisted he had to flee

Traveling the highway home

Sometimes the road seems weary and long

Traveling the highway home

But in my heart there's always a song

Traveling the highway home

Stagger Lee

traditional

Key: G

GCould been on a rainy morning

Could been on a rainy night

CStagger Lee and Billy DeLyon

had a great big Gfight

Oh that Dbad man, that cruel Stagger GLee

Billy DeLyon said, Stagger Lee,

please don't take my life,

I got two little babes,

and a darlin' lovin' wife"