Yodeling My Babies To Sleep Chords

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Yodeling My Babies To Sleep by Wilf Carter is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D7 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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  			Hi, Greg. . . 
 
Here are a couple of Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) songs that I particularly 
like.  I love Wilf's pure, simple yodeling style, and I've included the 
yodeling as I transcribed it from his recordings. 
 
YODELING MY BABIES TO SLEEP 
Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) 
peppy ? time 
 
I G want a sweet wife -- with blue eyes so bright 
That will D7 stay by my fire-side at G night. 
Not one -- with a Sheik ev-'ry night of the week 
While I D7 rock all my ba-bies to G sleep. 
She goes -- to the show-when the bright lights are low, 
She D7 knows every cop on the G street. 
While G I'm left a-lone -- with the babies at home 
Just a D7 yo-deling my ba-bies to G sleep. 
 
YODEL 
With a D7 HO dee d'LEH-ee, 
G HI a'dee d'LEH-ee 
D7 HO dee d'LEH-ee, 
G HI a'dee d'LEH-ee 
C HO a'deedel LEH-ee ee  G OO d'deedle-OH 
D7 I yo-del my ba-bies to G sleep. 
 
If I G asked her to go -- with me to a show 
There's a D7 girl-friend she prom-ised to G meet. 
I G get -- me own break-fast and work all day long 
While she D7dreams of the moon-light so G sweet. 
Think I'll get a div-orce - trade her off for a horse. 
What she's D7 good for is more than I G know. 
Then the G ba-bies and I - could go riding by 
And D7 smile at her each time we'd G meet. 
 
YODEL 
 
G As you all know - sweet ba-bies soon grow 
To D7 join in the world happy G throng. 
But what tickles me is when those ba-bies, you see, 
Join D7 me in my yo-deling G song. 
Can you picture me a ba-by on each knee 
When D7 com-pany's a-round I feel G queer. 
My wife says I'm fine, handing her same old line 
"You're D7 dar-ling, you're grand, oh, you're G dear". 
 
end with YODEL 
 
 
Alice Hanks (Allen) 
A.K.A., a SaddleBag 
[email protected]
    	

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