Astronomy Jamboree

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

Green Back Dollar

traditional

Key: A

No chord chart available.

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

Standing on the Mountain

Jim & Jesse

Key: A

No chord chart available.

Lonesome Road Blues

traditional

Key: A

No chord chart available.

Little Girl & Dreadful Snake

traditional

Key: G

No chord chart available.

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

Goodbye Booze

Charlie Pool

Key: C

She tore my Bbclothes

She swelled my Fhead

So goodbye Cbooze I'm going to Fbed

I had a good Bbtime, but we couldn't Fagree

So you see what Cbooze has done for Fme

Oh goodbye booze forever more

My boozing days will soon be o'er

I had a good time, but we couldn't agree

So you see what booze has done for me

Well she slammed my head

She broke my heart

So goodbye booze its time we part

I had a good time ...

Well she whispered low, how sweet it sounds

Won't don't you take another ride on the merry go round

I had a good time ...

Tunes

Whiskey for Breakfast

traditional

Key: D

No chord chart available.

Possum In A Well

Traditional

Key: D

Fiddle tune!

Mole in the Ground

traditional

Key: D

DI wish I was a mole in the ground

Yes, I wish I was a mole in the Aground

If I's a Dmole in the ground

I'd Groot that mountain down

And I Dwish I was a Amole in the Dground

Oh, I wish I was a lizard in the spring

Yes, I wish I was a lizard in the spring

If I's a lizard in the spring

I'd hear my darlin' sing

And I wish I was a lizard in the spring

Oh, Kempe wants a nine dollar shawl

Yes, Kempe wants a nine dollar shawl

With a nine dollar shawl

She could beat them all in all

Kempe wants a nine dollar shawl

Oh Kempe, let your hair roll down

Kempe, let your hair roll down

Let your hair roll down

and your bangs curl round

Oh Kempe, let your hair roll down

I been in the bend so long

Yes, I been in the bend so long

I been in the bend

with the rough and rowdy men

Baby, where you been so long?

Oh, I don't like a railroad man

No, I don't like a railroad man

Oh the railroad man

He'll kill you if he can

Drink up your blood like wine

Tunes

Possums Tail Is Bare

Traditional

Key: D

fiddle tune

On This Cold Prison Wall

George Tolbert

Key: D

No chord chart available.

Tunes

Needlecase

traditional

Key: D

No chord chart available.

Tennessee Waltz

traditional

Key: C

I was Cdancin' with my darlin to the C7Tennessee FWaltz

When an Cold friend I Amhappened to Dsee. G

I introcduced him to my darlin' and C7while they were Fdancin'

my Cfriend stole my Gsweetheart from Cme.

I Cremember the C7night and the FTennessee CWaltz

'cause I know just how Ammuch I have Dlost G

Yes I Clost my little darlin' the C7night they were Fplayin'

That Cbeautiful GTennessee CWaltz

Now I wonder how a dance like the Tennessee Waltz

Could have broken my heart so complete

Well I couldn't blame my darlin', and who could help fallin'

In love with my darlin' so sweet

Well it must be the fault of the Tennessee Waltz

Wish I'd known just how much it would cost

But I didn't see it commin', it's all over but the cryin'

Blame it all on the Tennessee Waltz

She goes dancin' with the darkness to the Tennessee Waltz

and I feel like I'm falling apart

and it's stronger than drink and it's deeper than sorrow

this darkness she left in my heart

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

?????

She threw her arms around me

around me, around me

She threw her arms around me

like a vine around a gum

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

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

I Ain't Got No Home

Woody Guthrie

Key: G

GI ain't got no home, I'm Cjust a-roamin' G'round

Just a wandrin' worker, I Ago from town to Dtown

GPolice make it hard Cwherever I may Ggo

And I ain't got no home in Dthis world anymore

My brothers and my sisters are stranded on this road

A hot and dusty road that a million feet have trod

Rich man took my home and drove me from my door

And I ain't got no home in this world anymore

Was a-farmin' on the shares, and always I was poor

My crops I lay into the banker's store

My wife took down and died upon the cabin floor

And I ain't got no home in this world anymore

I mined in your mines and I gathered in your corn

I been working, mister, since the day I was born

Now I worry all the time like I never did before

'Cause I ain't got no home in this world anymore

Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see

This world is such a great and a funny place to be

Oh, the gamblin' man is rich an' the workin' man is poor

And I ain't got no home in this world anymore

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

Standing on the Mountain

Jim & Jesse

Key: G

No chord chart available.

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

Take a Whiff on Me

Memphis Jug Band

Key: G

GGoing down Sixth Street, coming down Main

CTrying to bum a nickel for to buy cocaine

DHey, hey, honey take a whiff on Gme

Take a whiff on me, take a whiff on me

All you rounders take a whiff on me

Hey, hey, honey take a whiff on me

I've got a woman, she's ten feet tall

Her head in the kitchen, feet in the hall

Hey, hey, honey take a whiff on me

Two old women fishing in a creek

ain't caught a man since late last week

Hey, hey, honey take a whiff on me

Cocaine's for horses not for men

doctor say it'll kill you but he won't say when

Hey, hey, honey take a whiff on me

I'm a-walkin' down the road with my hat in my hand

Lookin' for a woman who needs a banjo man,

Hey, hey, baby take a whiff on me.

Rank Stranger

Stanley Brothers

Key: G

I wandered Gagain to my Dhome in the Gmountains

Where in youth's early dawn I was happy and Afree D

I looked for my Gfriends, but I Dnever could Gfind them

I found they were all rank Dstrangers to Gme

Everybody I met (everybody I met)

Seemed to Cbe a rank Gstranger (seemed to Cbe a rank Gstranger)

No mother nor dad (no mother or dad)

Not a friend could I Asee (not a friend could I Dsee)

They knew not my Gname (they knew not my name)

And I Dknew not their Gfaces (and I Dknew not their Gfaces)

I found they were all (I found they were all)

Rank strangers Dto Gme (rank Dstrangers to Gme)

"They've all moved away, " said the voice of a stranger

"To a beautiful land by the bright crystal sea"

Some beautiful day I'll meet 'em in heaven

Where no one will be a stranger to me

Worried Man's Blues

traditional

Key: G

No chord chart available.

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

Jesse James

traditional

Key: G

GJesse James was a man, the Cfinest in the land

GHe robbed the Glendale trDain

GHe stole from the rich and Cgave to the poor

GHe had a heDart, a soul and a brGain

It was on a Friday night the moon was shining bright

They robbed the Glendale train

And people all did say, from many miles away

It was those outlaws Frank and Jesse James

CJesse had a wife who mourned for his lGife

Three children, they were brDave

GThat dirty little coward who shCot Mr. Howard

Has lGaid Jesse JaDmes in his grGave

It was Robert Ford that dirty little coward

I wonder how he does feel

For he ate of Jesse's bread and slept in Jesse's bed

and he laid Jesse James in his grave

He was standing on a chair just dustin' a picture there

Thought that he heard a noise

He turned his head around and the bullet smashed him down

and they laid poor Jesse on the floor

People held their breath

when they heard about his death

wondered how he ever came to fall

It was Robert Ford, that little coward,

shot Jesse while he hung a picture on the wall

Hesitation Blues

traditional

Key: G

No chord chart available.

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

This Land Is Your Land

Woody Guthrie

Key: G

GThis land is Cyour land

this land is Gmy land,

From CalifDornia

to the New York GIsland,

From the Redwood FCorests

to the Gulf Stream waGters;

DThis land was made

for you and Gme.

As I was walking that ribbon of highway,

I looked above me, there in the skyway,

I saw below me, the Golden Valley;

This land was made for you and me.

I roamed and rambled,

and followed my footsteps

Through the sparkling sands of

her diamond deserts,

And all around me this voice kept saying,

"This land was made for you and me."

Oh, my loving Cmother,

when the world's on Gfire,

don't you want God's Dbosom

to be your Gpillow?

Tide me Cover in the Rock of GAges

Rock of DAges cleft for Gme.

Oh my loving father...

As the Sun was shining, and I was strolling

Through the wheat fields waving

and the dust clouds rolling,

I could feel inside me

and see all around me,

This land was made for you and me.

Rueben

traditional

Key: G

GOl Reuben made a train & he put it on a track

He ran it to the Lord Fknows Gwhere

Oh me, oh my ran it to the FLord knows Gwhere

Should been in town when Reuben's train went down

You could hear that whistle blow 100 miles

Oh me, oh my you could hear the whistle blow 100 miles

Last night I lay in jail had no money to go my bail

Lord how it sleeted & it snowed

Oh me, oh my Lord how it sleeted & it snowed

I've been to the East, I've been to the West

I'm going where the chilly winds don't blow

Oh me, oh my I'm going where the chilly winds don't blow

Oh the train that I ride is 100 coaches long

You can hear the whistle blow 100 miles

Oh me, oh my you can hear the whistle blow 100 miles

I got myself a blade, laid Reuben in the shade,

I'm startin' me a graveyard of my own.

Oh, me, oh lordy my, startin' me a graveyard of my own.

Ol Reuben made a train & he put it on a track

He ran it to the Lord knows where

Oh me, oh my ran it to the Lord knows where

Tunes

Flop Eared Mule

traditional

Key: D

No chord chart available.

I'll Fly Away

Albert E. Brumley

Key: G

GSome bright morning when this life is over

CI'll fly Gaway

To that home on God's celestial Emshore

GI'll Dfly Gaway

I'll fly away, oh glory

I'll fly away in the morning

When I die, Hallelujah by and by

I'll fly away

When the shadows of this life have gone

Like a bird from these prison walls has flown

Oh, how glad and happy when we meet

No more cold iron shackles on my feet

Just a few more weary days and then

To a land where joys will never end

Atlantic City

Bruce Springsteen

Key: A

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.

Who Broke the Lock

Highwoods String Band

Key: G

No chord chart available.

Wildwood Flower

traditional

Key: C

CI will twine with my mingles and Gwaving black Chair

with the roses so red and the Glilies so Cfair

with the myrtle so bright and the Femerald Cdew

with the pale amenitas and the Geyes look like Cblue

I will dance I will sing and my laugh shall be gay

I will charm every heart, in his arms I will sway

when I woke from my dreaming, my idols was clay

All portion of love had all gone away

He taught me to love him and promised to love

and to cherish me over all others above

How my heart is now aching no misery can tell

he left me no warning, no words of farewell

He taught me to love him and called me his flower

that was blooming to cheer him through life's dreary hour

How I long to see him and regret the dark hour

he's gone and neglected this pale wildwood flower

You Are My Sunshine

traditional

Key: D

The other Dnight dear as I laid sleeping

I dreamed I Gheld you in my Darms

But when I Gwoke dear I was misDtaken

And I Dhung my Ahead and I Dcried

You are my Dsunshine, my only sunshine

You make me Ghappy when skies are Dgray

You'll never Gknow dear, how much I Dlove you

Please don't Dtake my Asunshine Daway

I'll always love you and make you happy

If you will only say the same

But if you leave me and love another

You'll regret it all some day

You told me once dear you really loved me

And no one could come between

But now you've left me to love another

You have shattered all of my dreams

In all my dreams you seem to leave me

When I awake my poor heart pains

So won't you come back and make me happy

I'll forgive dear I'll take all the blame