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Arkansas Traveler

Music by Colonel Sanford (Sandy) Faulkner, about 1850

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G            C	G	D7          G	A7          D7
G            C	G	-             C	D7          G
-            D7	G           D7	G           D7	G            D7
G           D7	G           D7	G            C	D7          G  (repeat)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Oh, once upon a time in Arkansas,  An old man sat in his little cabin door,
And he fiddled at tune a that he liked to hear,  A jolly old tune that he played by ear.
It was raining hard but the fiddler didn't care,  He sawed away at the popular air,
Though his rooftree leaked like a water fall,  That didn't seem to bother the man at all.

 

Ending:

Didn't seem to bother the man at all.

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Watch Don Reno play "Arkansas Traveler" on the 5-string banjo (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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