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Merle Haggard, Jimmie The Kid (If I Could Be Him) Tabs
Artist/Band: Haggard Merle Tabs
Song: Jimmie The Kid (If I Could Be Him) Tab
JIMMIE THE KID
(Jimmie Rodgers)
Merle Haggard(IF I COULD BE HIM)
Strangers/Swinging Doors Album
November 16, 2008
Banjo tuned E Key of D, Capo 1
Jimmie the Kid (If I Could Be Him)
D G D E7 A D
I'll tell you a story of Jimmie the Kid he's a brakeman you all know
D G D E7 A
He was born in Mississippi away down south and he flagged on the T &
D
& N & O
D G D E7 A D
He yodeled to fame on the Boston Main the Wabash and the Teepee
D G D E7 A
D
Fe D G D E7 A
On the Lehigh Valley he yodeled awhile then he went to the Nickel
D
Plate
D G D E7 A
D
Eight
D G D E7 A D
He yodeled his way to the C & A the Lackawanna and I C
G D E7 A
He rode a rattler called the Cannonball then he yodeled on the M K &
D
T
( guitar )
G D E7 A D
Now the story goes that Jimmie the Kid has a yodeling mama so sweet
G D E7 A
They go Cadillacin' every night and they yodel up and down the
D
street
G D E7 A
He's rode freight trains from East to West he's fixed himself up
D
nice.
G D E7 A D
He's got a beautiful home all of his own it's the yodeler's paradise
G D G D E7
Now they've treated him good and they've treated him bad he never
A D
done any wrong
G D E7 A
He yodels a yodel that everybody knows is the yodeling brakeman's
D
song.
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