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Waiting For The Robert E. Lee

Words by L. Wolfe Gilbert, Music by Lewis F. Muir - 1912

Verse:
C	-	-	-
F	-	-	-
C	E7	F	C
D7	-	G7	-
C	-	-	-
F	-	-	-
C	E7	F	C
D7	G7	C	C7
Chorus:
F	-	-	-               Fdim
C7	-	-	-               Cdim
C7	-	-	-
F	-                 Caug	F	-            C7
F	-	-	-               Fdim
C7	-	-	-               Cdim
C7	-	-	-
-	-                 Caug	F	- (F F#7 G7 repeat all)

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

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Verse:

'Way down on the levee, In old Alabamy,

There's daddy and mammy, There's Ephra'm and Sammy;

On a moonlight night you can find them all;

While they are waitin', The banjos are syncopatin';

What's that they're sayin'? Oh, what's that they're sayin'?

The while they keep playin', I'm hummin' and swayin';

It's the good ship Robert E. Lee,

That's come to carry the cotton away.

 

Chorus:

Watch them shufflin' along;

See them shufflin' along,

Go take your best gal, real pal,

Go down to the levee, I said to the levee!

And then join that shufflin' throng;

Hear that music and song;

It's simply great, mate, waitin' on the levee,

WaitIn' For The Robert E. Lee!

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Performer Links:

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Watch the WineLand Banjo Band perform "Waiting For The Robert E. Lee" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com