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Version 1
Darling Little Joe
Written by A.P. Carter, Maybelle Carter, Sara Carter
[Verse]
C F C
What will the birds do mother in the spring
G7
When they stop to gather crumbs around the door
C F
Will they fly from the trees and tap at my window
G7 C
Asking why Joe wanders out no more
C F C
What will the kitten do mother all alone
G7
Will he stop from his frolics for a day
C F
Will he lie on his rug by the side of my bed
G7 C
As he did before I went away
C F C
What will Thomas that old gardener say
G7
When you ask him for flowers for me
C F
Will he give you a rose he has tended with care
G7 C
The first fairest bloom of the tree
C F C
I have seen the tears in his honest old eyes
G7
But he said it was the wind that brought them there
C F
As he gazed on my cheeks growing paler each day
G7 C
And his hand went trembling through my hair
C F C
Keep tied mother my poor little dog
G7
For I know he'll mourn for me too
C F
Just keep him when old and useless he grows
G7 C
Sleeping the whole summer through
C F C
Show him my coat mother so he'll not forget
G7
His master who then will be dead
C F
Just speak to him kindly and often of Joe
G7 C
And pat him on his brown shaggy head
C F C
And you dearest mother may miss me for a while
G7
But in heaven I'll no larger grow
C F
And any kind angel will know at the gate
G7 C
When you ask for your darling little Joe