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I Wonder How The

Old Folks Are At Home

Music by F.W. Vandersloot, Words by Herbert S. Lambert - 1909

Verse:
G                         C	G
-	C
-	G                     E7
A7	D7
Chorus:
G                         C	G
-	C
-	G                     E7
A7                      D7	G                (repeat)

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

Play Verse , Chorus, Verse Chorus.

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Verse 1:

I wonder how the old folks are at home,
I wonder if they miss me while I roam,
I wonder if they pray for the boy that went away,
And left his kind old parents all alone.

 

Verse 2:

A village and a homestead on the farm,
A mother's love to shield you from all harm,
The sky's above are blue, and a sweetheart that loves you,
A village and a homestead on the farm.

 

Chorus:

I hear the cattle lowing in the lane,
And see again the fields of golden grain,
I almost hear them sigh as they bade their boy "goodbye,"
I wonder how the old folks are at home.

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Performer Links:

(webpage)

 

Watch Flatt and Scruggs perform "I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home" (youtube)

 

Listen to The Statler Brothers perform "I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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