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The Old Spinning Wheel

Words and Music by Billy Hill - 1933

Verse:
C	Edim	G7	-
C	E7	F	A7
G7	-	C               E7	A7
D	D7	G7	-
Fm	-	C	A7
D	D7	G7	-
Chorus:
C	-                 Edim	G7	-
-	-	C	G7
C	-                 Edim	G7	-
-	-	C	C7
F	-	Cdim            C	-                G7
C                C7	F                D7	G7	-
C	-                 Edim	G7	-
-	-	C	-     (G7 repeat chorus)

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

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Verse:

Covered with dust and forgotten,

Like the face upon the wall.

The one souvenir of the days gone by,

I treasure most of all.

It's there in the gloaming I linger,

To kiss the mark of each finger.

 

Chorus:

There's an old spinning wheel in the parlor,

Spining dreams of the long, long ago.

Spinning dreams of her old fashioned garden,

And a maid with her old fashioned beau.

Sometimes it seems that I can hear her in the twilight,

At the organ softly singing sweet and low.

There's an old spinning wheel in the parlor,

Spining dreams of the long, long ago.

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Performer Links:

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Listen to Don Reno perform "Old Spinning Wheel" on the guitar (mp3)

 

Listen to Brennen Ernst perform "Old Spinning Wheel" on the 5-string banjo (mp3)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com