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Somebody Stole My Gal
Words and Music by Leo Wood - 1918
Verse:
C -            Adim G7 -
C -            Adim G7 -
A7 - D7 -
D7 - Em            G7 -             Dbdim
Dm           A7 - Dm -
D7 - G7            Cm Dbdim       G7
Chorus:
C -             Cdim Dm7 -              G7
- Dm7       Ab7+ C -
A7 - D7 -
- - G7 Dm7        G7+      
C -             Cdim Dm7 -              G7
- Dm7       B7b5 E -              G7
C - C7 -
F - Fm -
C            Adim Abdim       C D7 -
G7 - C -       (G7 to chorus)
8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.
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Verse:
Gee, but I'm lonesome, lonesome and blue,
I've found out something I never knew,
I know now what it means to be sad,
For I've lost the best gal I ever had.
She only left yesterday,
Somebody stole her away.
 
Chorus:
Somebody stole my gal,
Somebody stole my pal,
Somebody came and took her away,
She didn't even say she was leavin'.
The kisses I loved so,
He's getting now I know,
And Gee! I know that she,
Would come to me, If she could see,
Her broken hearted lonesome pal,
Somebody stole my gal.
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Performer Links:
(webpage)
 
Watch Jim perform "Somebody Stole My Gal" in a 5-string medley (youtube, time-stamp 3:05)
 
Listen to Dick Legrand perform "Somebody Stole My Gal" on tenor banjo (mp3)
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Arranged by Jim Bottorff
 
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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com