It's played with a country/bluegrass feel of course
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Well, get your father, get your mother, get your sister,
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Get your brother, Aunt Lucy gonna show Uncle John,
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How to do the boogie-woogie, while the kissin cousins chasin chicken,
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Out on the old back lawn
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Y'all come with one another, Just to go a little further,
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If this old bus don’t break down
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Camp fire's burnin and tonight my heart is yearnin,
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For the sight of that old camp ground.
[Chorus]
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And that high lonesome sound
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When that evening sun goes down
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I’ll be crawling on the ground
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When I hear the fiddle play that high lonesome sound
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[Verse 2]
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Well bring along your lawn chair, or sitting in the thresher,
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And the cooler full of beer and watch the show
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There’s clog dancing, horses prancin, syncopated music playin,
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Girls are looking pretty don’t you know
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Look at old Gran Pappy, he’s feelin kind of snappy,
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Seems like he just don’t care
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That he’s over 93, he’s as spry as you or me,
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Dancing to the music in the air
[Chorus]
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Its that high lonesome sound
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When that evening sun goes down
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I’ll be crawling on the ground
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When I hear the fiddle play that high lonesome sound
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[Instrumental]
Banjo and Mandolin solos
Play verse guitar 1 time through
[Verse 3]
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Well, young ones, old ones, looking like they’re having fun,
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Enjoyin the country view
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Tellin jokes to all the folks bout how The Watergate got broke-in,
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How this grass got blue
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Hey Mister Fiddle Man, play us all a little jam, now, now-now-now
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And that’s the way Monroe sound, when Penn taught him to play,
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Riding on the back of a mule
[Chorus]
D A
Its that high lonesome sound
D E
When that evening sun goes down
D A
I’ll be crawling on the ground
A E A
When I hear the fiddle play that high lonesome sound
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I hear the fiddle play that high lonesome sound
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I hear the fiddle play that high lonesome sound
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I hear the fiddle play that high lonesome sound