I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby - The Louvin Brothers
Composer: Autry Inman
Original Label: Capitol
Original key: D
Reached #1 in the US country chart in 1956.
Note: Solo guitar fingerpicks using following chord shapes
D. A7. G. Ab. F#.
EADGBe EADGBe EADGBe EADGBe EADGBe
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Mandolin intro tabbed for guitar:
A. A7. D. A7. D.
e|---------|0-0-0-0-0-0-2-0-3-0-0-0---------|----------------2--|
B|-3-3-2-3 |------------------------2---0-2-|3-3---0---------3--|
G|---------|--------------------------2-----|----2---2---2---2--|
D|---------|--------------------------------|------- --4---0-0--|
A|---------|--------------------------------|----------------0--|
E|---------|--------------------------------|----------------2--|
Intro (Mandolin solo):
A A7 D A7 D
#1:
D A7
Last night my dear the rain was falling,
A7 G A7
I went to bed so sad and blue.
A7 D A7 D
Then I had a dream of you
D A7
I dreamed I was strolling in the evening,
A7 G A7
Underneath the harvest moon.
A7 D A7 D
I was thinking about you
D A7
And then you met me in the moonlight
A7 G A7
The stars were shining in your eyes
A7 D A7 D
But another was there too
Instrumental:
A7 D A7 Ab G F# G A A A7 D A7 D
GUITAR see note............ MANDOLIN repeat intro
#2:
D A7
"I don't believe you've met my baby"
A7 G A7
You looked at him, you looked at me.
A7 D A7 D
I wondered who you were talking to.
D A7
I shook the hand of your stranger,
A7 G A7
But I was shaking more inside.
A7 D A7 D
I was still wondering who
#3:
D A7
Your arm was resting on his shoulder
A7 G A7
You smiled at him he smiled at you
A7 D A7 D
His eyes were filled with victory
D A7
He said my sister wants to marry
A7 G A7
Then my heart was filled with ease
A7 D A7 D
I knew that you would marry me