Way over yonder in the minor key
G - C - C -
G
G C
1. I lived in a place called Olfuskee,
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G
and I
had a little girl in a holler tree.
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I said, little girl, it's plain
to see,
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ain't nobody that can sing like me,
D Em
ain't nobody that can sing like me.
G C
2. She said it’s hard for me to see,
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how
one little boy got so ugly.
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Yes, my little girly, that
might be,
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but
there ain't nobody that can sing like me,
D Em
ain't nobody that can sing like me.
C G
Way over yonder in the minor key,
Am G
way over yonder in the minor key,
D Em
there ain't
nobody that can sing like me.
G
C
3. We walked on down by the buckeye creek
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G
to
see the frog eat the goggle-eyed bee,
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C
to
hear that west wind whistle to the east,
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there
ain't nobody that can sing like me,
D Em
ain't nobody that can sing like me.
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C
4. Oh, my little girly, will you let me see
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G
way
over yonder where the wind blows free ?
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Nobody can see in our holler
tree,
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G
and
there ain't nobody that can sing like me.
D Em
ain't nobody that can sing like me.
+ CHORUS +
instrumental = CHORUS
G C
5. Her mama cut a twig from a cherry tree,
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and
laid it on the she and me.
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C
It stung much worse than the
hive of bees,
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but
there ain't nobody that can sing like me.
D Em
ain't nobody that can sing like me.
G C
6. Now I have walked a long, long ways,
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but I
still look back to my tangle wood days.
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I've led lots of girls since
then to stray
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saying,
ain't nobody that can sing like me.
D Em
ain't nobody that can sing like
me.
D Em - D - Em
+ CHORUS (2x)
+ Ain't
nobody that can sing like me.
(orig. = capo 4th) (Billy
Bragg)