Yodeling My Babies To Sleep
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Hi, Greg. . .
Here are a couple of Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) songs that I particularly
like. I love Wilf's pure, simple yodeling style, and I've included the
yodeling as I transcribed it from his recordings.
YODELING MY BABIES TO SLEEP
Wilf Carter (Montana Slim)
peppy ? time
I G want a sweet wife -- with blue eyes so bright
That will D7 stay by my fire-side at G night.
Not one -- with a Sheik ev-'ry night of the week
While I D7 rock all my ba-bies to G sleep.
She goes -- to the show-when the bright lights are low,
She D7 knows every cop on the G street.
While G I'm left a-lone -- with the babies at home
Just a D7 yo-deling my ba-bies to G sleep.
YODEL
With a D7 HO dee d'LEH-ee,
G HI a'dee d'LEH-ee
D7 HO dee d'LEH-ee,
G HI a'dee d'LEH-ee
C HO a'deedel LEH-ee ee G OO d'deedle-OH
D7 I yo-del my ba-bies to G sleep.
If I G asked her to go -- with me to a show
There's a D7 girl-friend she prom-ised to G meet.
I G get -- me own break-fast and work all day long
While she D7dreams of the moon-light so G sweet.
Think I'll get a div-orce - trade her off for a horse.
What she's D7 good for is more than I G know.
Then the G ba-bies and I - could go riding by
And D7 smile at her each time we'd G meet.
YODEL
G As you all know - sweet ba-bies soon grow
To D7 join in the world happy G throng.
But what tickles me is when those ba-bies, you see,
Join D7 me in my yo-deling G song.
Can you picture me a ba-by on each knee
When D7 com-pany's a-round I feel G queer.
My wife says I'm fine, handing her same old line
"You're D7 dar-ling, you're grand, oh, you're G dear".
end with YODEL
Alice Hanks (Allen)
A.K.A., a SaddleBag
alice@mcn.net
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