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A Drunkards Child by Jimmie Rodgers - Guitar Chords

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Version 1

            (3/4)

[Intro]
| C  | C  | G  | C  |
| C  | C  | D7 | D7 |
| D7 | G7 | G7 | C  |
(yodel)

[Verse 1]
                                          G7
My father is a drunkard, my mother she is dead
                                           G      C
And I am just an orphan child, no place to lay my head
                                 C7                       F
All through this world I wander, they drive me from their door
                    C           G7              C
Someday I'll find a welcome, on heaven's golden shore

[Verse 2]
                                              G7
Now if to me you'll listen, I'll tell a story sad
                                                            C
How drinking rum and the gambling hell, have stoled away my dad
                                  C7                 F
My mother she is in heaven, where God and the angels smile
                     C             G7     G      C
And now I know she's watching, her lonely orphan child

[Break]
| C  | C  | C  | D7 |
| D7 | D7 | G7 | G7 |
| C  | C  |
(yodel)

[Verse 3]
                                      G7
We were once so happy and had a happy home
                                                        C
'Till daddy he went to drinking rum and then he gambled some
                               C7               F
He left my darling mother, she died of a broken heart
                 C        G7                 C
And as I tell my story, I see your teardrops start

[Verse 4]
                                                    G7
Don't weep for me and mother, although I know it is sad
                                    G                   C
But try to get someone to cheer and save my poor lonely dad
                               C7                  F
I'm awful cold and hungry, she closed her eyes and sighed
                         C               G7     G         C
Then those who heard her story, knew the orphan child had died

[Outro]
| C  | C  | C | D7 |
| D7 | D7 | G | G  |
| C  | C  |
(yodel) 
        

We also have 53 songs by Jimmie Rodgers

• A Drunkards Child
• Any Old Time
• Away Out On The Mountain
• Ben Dewberrys Final Run
• Daddy And Home
• Dear Old Sunny South By The Sea
• Desert Blues
• Down The Old Road To Home
• Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes
• Everybody Does It In Hawaii
• For The Sake Of Days Gone By
• Frankie And Johnny
• High Powered Mama
• Hobo Bills Last Ride
• Hobos Meditation
• Home Call
• Im Free From The Chain Gang Now
• In The Jailhouse Now
• Miss The Mississippi And You
• Mississippi Delta Blues
• Mississippi Moon
• Mississippi River Blues
• Moonlight And Skies
• My Blue Eyed Jane
• My Carolina Sunshine Girl
• My Little Lady
• My Little Old Home Down In New Orleans
• My Time Aint Long
• Never No Mo Blues
• No Hard Times
• Nobody Knows But Me
• Old Pal Of My Heart
• Peach Pickin Time In Georgia
• Pistol Packin Papa
• Prairie Lullaby
• She Was Happy Till She Met You
• Sleep Baby Sleep
• Somewhere Down Below The Dixon Line
• Southern Cannon Ball
• Standing On The Corner Blue Yodel 9
• Tb Blues
• Thats Why Im Blue
• The Brakemans Blues
• The Sailors Plea
• The Yodeling Ranger
• Travellin Blues
• Treasures Untold
• Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues
• Waiting For A Train
• When The Cactus Is In Bloom
• Whisper Your Mothers Name
• Years Ago
• You And My Old Guitar

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