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Kentucky Waltz

Words and Music by Bill Monroe - 1946

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D7	G7	C	-   (G7 repeat)

12-beat intro.  Play 3-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

This song is in 3/4 waltz time.

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I can hear that haunting waltz of Kentucky,

I fell in love the night I heard that tune,

And I was the boy that was lucky,

But it all ended too soon.

As I sit alone in the moonlight,

I see your smiling face,

And I long once more for your embrace,

In that beautiful Kentucky Waltz.

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Performer Links:

(webpage)

 

Watch Alan Munde perform "Kentucky Waltz" on the 5-string banjo (youtube)

 

Listen to Bill Monroe perform "Kentucky Waltz" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com