Animal Song If I Could Ramble Like A Hound Chords

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Animal Song If I Could Ramble Like A Hound by Michael Hurley is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, G, Dm and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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F          G             Dm              C              Dm             
If I could ramble like a hound when he's walking down a rabbit trail 
F          G             Dm              C                    F 
If I could ramble like a hound when he's walking down a rabbit trail 
F                      G        Dm         C                  Dm           
I'd keep a nose in the wind and believe me people, I'd wag my tail 

F   G   C   Dm   F 

F              G                Dm              C              Dm       
If I had radar hearing like the bat like the bat that flies at night 
Dm             G                Dm           C                 F 
If I had radar hearing like the bat like the bat that flies at night 
F                    G              Dm             C                Dm       
I could hear all the lightning bugs turning up and turning down the summer's  
     F 
light 


F         G             Dm   C       Dm 
If I only knew what the wise old owl knows 
Dm        G              Dm   C       F 
If I only knew what that wise old owl knows 
F            G           Dm              C               Dm     F 
I'd look all night long, tell the folks about my worldly woes 

F          G               Dm          C            Dm     F           
If I could wallow like the great white whale in the sea 
F          G               Dm          C            F           
If I could wallow like the great white whale in the sea 
F         G                 Dm   C     Dm    F 
I'd rise, I'd sink low, and forever be free 

F          G                   Dm      C       Dm   F 
If I could sleep long like the grizzly grizzly bear 
F          G                   Dm      C       F 
If I could sleep long like the grizzly grizzly bear 
F             G            Dm     C    Dm      F 
I'd sleep and I'd dream of your golden hair 
    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante