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Why Do You Cry Little Darling by The Carter Family - Guitar Chords

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Version 1

            From the album 'Last Sessions - Their Complete Victor Recordings 1934-1941'

The original sounds in G.
To simplify transpose up two steps and play without a capo, with chords G, C and D7.

[Introduction]
F  C  F

[Verse 1]
F          Bb          F                                    C
Why do you cry, little darling, why are those tears in your eyes ?
F          Bb          F                    C7      F
Why do you weep little darling, just when I say goodbye ?
   Bb               F          Bb              F
It makes me sad and lonely, to see you feel so blue.
F           Bb            F                     C7      F
What have I done, little darling, have I been untrue to you ?
 
[Instrumental]
F  Bb  F  C
F  Bb F  C  F
 
[Verse 2]
F              Bb             F                                  C
'Cause you are called, little darling, to fight for your country true,
        F      Bb             F                    C                  F
There's many a poor girl just like me, weeping for their sweethearts, too.
  Bb                  F             Bb                      F
I tried so hard to be cheerful, but thought of all the long years,
F            Bb           F                         C       F
You might be gone, little darling, I could not keep back my tears.
 
[Instrumental]
F  Bb  F  C
F  Bb F  C  F

[Verse 3]
F            Bb          F                              C
That's why I cry, little darling, because you're going away,
F          Bb          F                      C         F
leaving me all broken-hearted to weep for you day after day.
      Bb                     F            Bb                        F
Every night I'll kneel by my bedside, and ask God to guide you each day
F           Bb            F                                C          F
back to your sweetheart that's waiting, and loves you more than I can say.

[Instrumental]
F  Bb  F  C
F  Bb F  C  F   

[Outro]
      Bb                     F            Bb                        F
Every night I'll kneel by my bedside, and ask God to guide you each day
F           Bb            F                                C          F
back to your sweetheart that's waiting, and loves you more than I can say. 
        

We also have 40 songs by The Carter Family

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• Beautiful Isle Oer The Sea
• Black Jack David
• Can The Circle Be Unbroken
• Church In The Wildwood
• Darling Little Joe
• Engine One-Forty-Three
• Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room
• Give Me The Roses While I Live
• Gold Watch And Chain
• Hello Central Give Me Heaven
• Homestead On The Farm
• I Cant Feel At Home
• I Never Will Marry
• Im Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
• Jimmie Brown The Newsboy
• John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man
• Keep On The Sunny Side
• Little Darling Pal Of Mine
• Lonesome For You
• Lulu Walls
• My Clinch Mountain Home
• My Dixie Darling
• My Texas Girl
• On The Sea Of Galilee
• Single Girl Married Girl
• The Foggy Mountain Top
• The Happiest Days Of All
• The Mountains Of Tennessee
• The Western Hobo
• Wabash Cannonball
• When Im Gone
• When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
• When The Worlds On Fire
• Where Well Never Grow Old
• Why Do You Cry Little Darling
• Wildwood Flower
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken
• Will You Miss Me When Im Gone
• Worried Man Blues

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