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On The Banks Of The Wabash

Words and Music by Paul Dresser -1897

Verse:
G                C	G	-                D7	G
G                C	G	-                D7	G
B7	Em	A7	D7
G                C	G	-                D7	G
Chorus:
G               B7	Em	Em7           A7	D7
G               B7	Em	G               A7       D7	G      (repeat chorus)

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

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Verse:

'Round my Indiana homestead wave the cornfields, In the distance loom the woodlands clear and cool.
Oftentimes my thoughts revert to scenes of childhood, Where I first received my lessons, nature’s school.
But one thing there is missing in the picture, Without her face it seems so incomplete.
I long to see my mother in the doorway, As she stood there years ago her boy to greet.

 

Chorus:

Oh, the moonlight’s fair tonight along the Wabash, From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay,
Through the sycamores the candlelights are gleaming, On the banks of the Wabash, far away.

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Listen to the Big Ben Banjo Band perform "On The Banks Of The Wabash" (mp3)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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