The First Whippoorwill - Hazel Dickens Chords
Chords: Bb/F, Bb, F, Eb/Bb, Eb
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Genre: folk, blues, appalachian
[Intro]
Bb/F Bb
[Verse]
Bb Bb Bb Bb Bb F Bb Bb
Spring time is here my darling, They say that you are going away
Bb Bb Bb Bb Bb F Bb Bb
My heart will be with you my darling, And I'm countin' down the days
[Chorus]
Eb/Bb Eb Bb Bb Bb Bb F F
I know that you have to travel, I know I'm over the due
Eb Eb Bb Bb
I feel so all alone my darling said you'd be gone
Bb F Bb Bb
When I heard that first whippoorwill
[Verse]
Bb Bb Bb F Bb
The flowers are bloomin' little darling, With a button of degree
Bb Bb Bb F Bb
I hear them night birds a crying, I know that they are warning me
[Chorus]
Eb Eb Bb Bb Bb Bb F F
I know that you have to travel, I know I'm over the due
Eb Eb Bb Bb
I feel so all alone my darling said she'd be gone
Bb F Bb Bb
When I heard that first whippoorwill
[Verse]
Bb Bb Bb Bb Bb F Bb Bb
Our love was planted little darling, Just like a farmer plants the grain
Bb Bb Bb Bb Bb F Bb Bb
But there will never be a harvest, On the hill the whippoorwill now sings
[Chorus]
Eb Eb Bb Bb Bb F F
I know that you now have to travel, I know I'm over the due
Eb Eb Bb Bb
I feel so all alone my darling said she'd be gone
Bb F Bb Bb
When I heard that first whippoorwill
[Outro]
Bb
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