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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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Watch the WineLand Banjo Band play "Robert E. Lee" (youtube)
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Arranged by Jim Bottorff
 
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