WAY OVER YONDER IN THE MINOR KEY
MERMAID AVENUE - 1998
WORDS Woody Guthrie - 1946  MUSIC:  Billy Bragg - 1997


*The first two verses of this
song come to me on the 9th of September while I was doing KP
out in Scott Field, Illinois.
I hummed it over to myself for a couple of months, or seven, 
and then took a notion today
that I would finish it up		 This song made up by Woody Guthrie
3520 Mermaid Avenue, Brooklyn, 24, NY. ?
March the Fifth, wife in Town working,
Daughter in nursery school, jug dry,
temperature warmer. A March wind is
marching down along the ocean looking
at the wreckage that washed in last night

WOODY GUTHRIE
Notes: Capo on 4th fret. No Live version yet.
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Chords:

Intro

G     C    G

Verse
G                                                                            C
I lived in a place called Okfuskee
C                               Cmaj9 G
and I had a little girl I a holler    tree
G                                  C
I said, little girl, it's plain to see,
C                                Cmaj9 G
there ain't nobody that can sing like  me
D                               Em
Ain't nobody that can sing like me,

Verse
G                            C
She said it's hard for me to see
C                         Cmaj9 G
how one little boy got so ug    ly
G                                C
Yes, my little girly, that might be,
C                                    Cmaj9 G
but there ain't nobody that can sing like  me
D                               Em
Ain't nobody that can sing like me,
 

Chorus
C                                                                      G
way over yonder in the minor key
D                            Em
way over yonder in the minor key
D                                     Em
there ain't nobody that can sing like me
 

Verse
G                             C
We walked down by the Buckeye Creek
C                              Cmaj9 G
to see the frog eat the goggle eye   bee
G                                    C
to hear the west wind whistle to the east,
C                                Cmaj9 G
there ain't nobody that can sing like  me
D                               Em
Ain't nobody that can sing like me,
 

Verse
G                                  C
Oh my little girly will you let me see,
C                              Cmaj9 G
way over yonder where the wind blows free
G                            C
Nobody can see in our holler tree
C                                    Cmaj9 G
and there ain't nobody that can sing like  me
D                               Em
Ain't nobody that can sing like me,
 

Chorus
C                                                                      G
way over yonder in the minor key
D                            Em
way over yonder in the minor key
D                                     Em
there ain't nobody that can sing like me

Instrumental
C  G  D  Em  D Em

Verse
G                                   C
Her mama cut a switch from a cherry tree
C                      Cmaj9 G
and laid it on the she and   me,
G                                  C
It stung lots worse than a hive of bees
C                                    Cmaj9 G
but there ain't nobody that can sing like  me
D                               Em
Ain't nobody that can sing like me,

Verse
G                             C
Now I have walked a long long ways
C                                 Cmaj9 G
and I still look back at my tanglewood  days
G                                    C
I've led lots of girls since then to stray
C                                  Cmaj9 G
saying, ain't nobody that can sing like  me
D                               Em
Ain't nobody that can sing like me,

Chorus
C                                                                      G
way over yonder in the minor key
D                            Em
way over yonder in the minor key
D                                     Em
there ain't nobody that can sing like me

C                                                                      G
way over yonder in the minor key
D                            Em
way over yonder in the minor key
D                                     Em
there ain't nobody that can sing like me
D                                     Em
there ain't nobody that can sing like me

C G fade