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Moonlight On The Colorado

Music by Robert A. King, Words by Billy Moll - 1930

Intro:
G	C	G	-
D7	-	G	-
Verse:
G	D7	G	G7
C	-	G	-
-	D7	Em	-
A7	-	D7	-
Chorus:
G	C	G	-
D7	-	G	-
-	C	G	-
D7	-	G	G7
C	-	G	-
Em	A7	D7	-
G	C	G	-
D7	-	G	-  (D7  to chorus)

6-beat lead-in before intro.  Play 3-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

This song is in 3/4 time.

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Intro:

(Instrumental)

 

Verse:

Each night I sit beside the campfire dreaming,

In England's hills and dales across the sea.

And as I watch the embers softly gleaming,

I always picture in my memory:

 

Chorus:

Moonlight on the river Colorado,

How I wish that I were there with you.

As I sit and pine, each lonely shadow,

Takes me back to days that we once knew.

We were to wed in harvest time, you said,

That's why I'm longing for you.

When it's moonlight on the Colorado,

I wonder if you're waiting for me, too.

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Performer Links:

(webpage)

 

Watch the WineLand Banjo Band perform "Moonlight On The Colorado" (youtube, timestamp 5:10)

Vocal by John Green

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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The chord names should appear in single rows.   Let me know of any problems.

 

email: jbott@ix.netcom.com