Bob Wills Chords and Lyrics
- Big Balls In Cowtown
- Bubbles In My Beer
- Deep Water
- Faded Love Chords
- Faded Love Tabs
- Home In San Antone
- I Can't Go On This Way
- Maiden's Prayer
- Oklahoma Gals
- Roly Poly
- San Antonio Rose
- Take Me Back To Tulsa
- Time Changes Everything
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Big Balls In Cowtown - Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys
Aagghh! Let the ladies split out wide
Grab your pardner - go hog wild. Aagghh! Now, now, now;
CHORUS
[G] Big Ball's in [G7] Cowtown
[C] We'll all go [G] down
[G] Big Ball's in [G7] Cowtown
[D] We'll dance a-[G] round.
[G] Workin' on the [G7] railroad
[C] Sleepin' on the [G] ground
Eatin' saltine [G7] crackers
[D] Ten cents a [G] pound.
CHORUS
Put on your new shoes
Put on your gown
Take off them sack clothes
The Big Ball's in town.
CHORUS
I'll stay in cowtown
I'll stick around
Bolt up your window
The Big Ball's in town.
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Bubbles In My Beer - Bob Wills (Vocal by Tommy Duncan)
(BW: Aah! Ha!, Now, Yea! -- Watchin' The Bubbles In My Beer
Well, come in Tommy, give us the low down on it)
[C] Tonight in a bar alone I'm [G] sitting
Apart from the laughter and the [C] cheers
While scenes from the past, rise be-[G] fore me
Just watchin' The Bubbles In My [C] Beer.
A [F] vision of someone who [C] loved me
Brings a [G] lone silent tear to my [C] eye
Oh! I know that my life's been a [G] failure
Just watchin' The Bubbles In My [C] Beer.
(Note. Same chords as for 1st verse)
I'm seeing a road that I've traveled
A road paved with hearthaches and tears
And I'm seeing the past, that I've wasted
While watchin' The Bubbles In My Beer
As I [F] think of the heart that I've [C] broken
And of the golden chances that have passed me [G] by
And the [C] dreams that I made, now are [G] empty
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Deep Water - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
[C] I'm - drifting into [F] Deep [C] Water
I'm starting to care for [G] you
[C] You're getting me in [F] Deep [C] Water
Be [G] careful what you [C] do.
[G] You want a romance, but [D] I'm seekin' love
I know I'll regret [D7] it when it [G7] ends
[C] I'm - windin' up in [F] Deep [C] Water
Why [G] can't we just be [C] friends.
It's - restless in this Deep Water
I'm lost between right and wrong
My love is true as Deep Water
Your love won't last as long.
Where will it lead me and where will it end
I can't help but wish I only knew
I'm - windin' up in Deep Water
So deep in love with you.
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Faded Love - Bob Wills
[Each chord (or pair of chords joined by a hyphen) is one measure]
D D7 G G
As I look at the letters that you wrote to me
D D A7 A7
It's you that I am thinking of
D D7 G G
As I read the lines that to me were so dear
D A7 D - G D
I remember our faded love
D D G G
I miss you, darling, more and more every day
D D A7 A7
As heaven would miss the stars above
D D G G
With every heartbeat, I still think of you
D A7 D - G D
And remember our faded love
D A7 D - G D
[instrumental]
As I think of the past and all the pleasures we had
As I watched the mating of the doves
It was in the springtime that you said goodbye
I remember our faded love
I miss you, darling, more and more every day
As heaven would miss the stars above
With every heartbeat, I still think of you
And remember our faded love
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Faded Love - Bob Wills
The tab is actually a simplified version of the fiddle intro. I included
the chord names in case you want to fill in the inner beats with chord
strums (like I do). I'm afraid you'll have to play with it to get the
feel right for this. The intro is in D and changes key to E at the end.
Intro: D G D
e+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
B+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
G+-------2--2--4-2----------------------------------2--2--4-2------------
D+-0--4--------------4--2--0-----0--0--2-0----0--4--------------4--2--0--
A+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
E+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
A D G
e+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
B+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
G+----------------------2--2--4-2----------------------------------------
D+--2--2--4-2---0--4---------------4--2--0----0--0--2-0------------------
A+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
E+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
If you play chords use this
Key Change for last 4 notes (C shape)
D# E
e+-------------------------------------- ----2-----3--4--------------
B+-------------------------------------- ----3-----4--5--------------
G+-------------------------------------- ----2-----3--4--------------
D+-----------4--2--2--0-0-----1--2------ ----4-----5--6--------------
A+--3--2--0----------------------------- --5-5-----6--7--------------
E+-------------------------------------- ----------------------------
[Each chord (or pair of chords joined by a hyphen) is one measure]
E E7 A A
As I look at the letters that you wrote to me
E E B7 B7
It's you that I am thinking of
E E7 A A
As I read the lines that to me were so sweet
E B7 E - A E
I remember our faded love
CHORUS: E E A A (I like barre chords
I miss you, darling, more and more every day for the chorus -Greg)
E E B7 B7
As heaven would miss the stars above
E E A A
With every heartbeat, I still think of you
E B7 E - A E
And remember our faded love
E B7 E - A E
[instrumental]
As I think of the past and all the pleasures we had
As I watched the mating of the doves
It was in the springtime that you said goodbye
I remember our faded love
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Home In San Antone - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
CAPO: 3RD FRET KEY: F PLAY: D
[D] Haven't got a wor-[D7] ry, [G] haven't got a care
[D] Haven't got a thing to call my [A] own
[D] Though I'm out of mon-[D7] ey, [G] I'm a millionaire
[D] I still have my [A] home in San An-[D] tone. ...[D7]
[G] When I greet my neighbors with a [Gm] hi ya-[G] all
[D] I'm wealthy as a king upon a [A] throne
[D] You can have your man-[D7] sion, [G] or your cottage small
[D] I'll just take my [A] home in San An-[D] tone.
Travelled o'er the country, on my merry way
Been in crowds and felt I was alone
When I feel like braggin', I just up and say
I'm a native son of San Antone.
There's a sweet somebody by the Alamo
Someday she's gonna be my very own
And we'll buy a highchair in a year or so
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I Can't Go On This Way - Bob Wills
[C] Moanin' Low, Moanin' High - hair is turnin' [G] gray
Don't [C] care if I [F] live or die - I [C] CAN'T GO [G] ON THIS [C] WAY
[C] Woe is me, so is you - what a price to [G] pay
Tell me [C] what I'm [F] gonna do - I [C] CAN'T GO [G] ON THIS [C] WAY.
[F] Ev'ry night I walk the floor - [C] worried [F] over [C] you
[F] All I do is watch the door - [C] hopin' [F] you'll come [G] through
Pacin' [C] up, pacin' down - 'til the break of [G] day
I'm the [C] saddest [F] soul in town - I [C] CAN'T GO [G] ON THIS [C] WAY.
Where are you - at tonight? - while I wait and pray
You know you ain't doin' right - I CAN'T GO ON THIS WAY
Lonesome me, sad and blue - tryin' hard to say
I'm so much in love with you - I CAN'T GO ON THIS WAY.
You don't want me anymore - guess my love was blind
Never felt this way before - 'bout to lose my mind
Moanin' Low, Moanin' High - hair is turnin' gray
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Maiden's Prayer - Bob Wills (Vocal by Lee Ross)
[G] Twilight falls - Ev'ning shadows [C] find
[D] There 'neath the stars - A maiden so fair - [G] divine
All alone I seem to see her [C] there
In her [G] eyes is a [C] light shinning [G] ever so [C] bright
She [G] whispered a [D] silent [G] prayer.
Ev'ry word revealed her empty broken heart
Broken by fate that holds them so far apart
Lonely there she kneels and tells the stars above
In her arms he belongs, in her heart is a song
An undying song of love.
Change to A:
INSTRUMENTAL - Guitar
INSTRUMENTAL - Fiddle
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Oklahoma Gals - Bob Wills (Vocal: Tommy Duncan)
[D] Grab your gal and [D/F#] turn her [D] 'round
[A7] Let your little foot [D] jar the ground
Bawl just like a [D/F#] long-haired [D] hound
[A7] Tell me - are you comin' out to-[D]night?
Refrain:
[D] Oklahoma Gals, Ain't cha [D/F#] comin' out to-[D] night?
[A7] Comin' out tonight? [D] Comin' out tonight?
Oklahoma Gals, ain't cha [D/F#] comin' out to-[D] night?
And [A7] dance by the light of the [D] moon?
[D] Over the river to [D/F#] feed the [D] ducks
[A7] Over the river to [D] Charlie's
Over the river to [D/F#] feed the [D] ducks
And [A7] gather the [D] Barley.
Refrain:
Jaybird sittin' on a piece of tin
I picked up a rock and hit 'im on the shin
He said, little boy - don't you do that again
Tell me - are you comin' out tonight?
Refrain:
On your left and now your right
Treat 'em all alike - if it takes all night
We wont' go home till broad daylight
Tell me - are you comin' out tonight?
Refrain:
oo4212 D/F# (Optional)
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Roly Poly - Bob Wills
[G] ROLY POLY, [C] eatin' corn n' [G] 'taters
Hungry ev'ry minute of the [D] day
[G] ROLY POLY, [C] gnawin' on a [G] biscuit
Long as he can [D] chew it, it's [G] OK.
[C] He can eat an apple pie
An' [G] never even bat an eye
[A] He likes everything from [A7]soup to [D] hay
[G] ROLY POLY, [C] daddy's little [G] fattie
Bet he's gonna [D] be a man some-[G] day.
ROLY POLY, scrambled eggs for breakfast
Bread n' jelly twenty times a day
ROLY POLY, eats a hardy dinner
It takes lots of strength to run and play.
Pulls up weeds and does the chores
And he runs both ways to all the stores
He works up an appetite that way
ROLY POLY, daddy's little fattie
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San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills
Bb Bb7 Eb C7
Deep within my heart lies a melody,
F7 F+ Bb
A song of old San An - tone.
Bb7 Eb C7
Where in dreams I live with a memory,
F7 Bb
Beneath the stars all alone.
Bb7Eb C7
It was there I found beside the Alamo
F7 Bb
Enchantment strange as the blue up above.
Bb7 Eb C7
A moonlit pass only she would know,
F7 Bb
Still hears my broken song of love.
F Fdim C7 F C7 Abm C9
Moon in all your splendor, know only my heart
C Abm C9 F
Call back my Rose, Rose of San Antone.
Fdim F C7 F C C9
Lips so sweet and tender, like petals falling apart.
C Abm C9 F F7
Speak once a - gain of my love, my own.
Bb Bb7 Eb C7 F7 F+ Bb
Broken song, empty words I know still live in my heart all a - lone
Bb Bb7 Eb C7 F7 Bb
For that moonlit pass by the Alamo, and Rose, my Rose of San Antone.
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Take Me Back To Tulsa - Bob Wills/Tommy Duncan
G D7
Where's that girl with the red dress on? Some folks calls her Dinah;
G
Stole my heart away from me, way down in Louisana.
G D7
Take Me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to marry;
G
Take me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to marry.
Little bee sucks the blossom, big bee gets the honey,
Dark man picks the cotton, White man gets the money.
Oh, walk and talk suzy, walk and talk suzy.
Walk and talk suzy, walk and talk suzy.
I went to the Railroad, laid my head down on the track.
I thought about that girl of mine and I gradually eased it back.
We always wear a great big smile, we never do look sour.
Travel all over the country, playing music by the hour.
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Time Changes Everything - Bob Wills
There Was a time (F7) When(C7) I Thought (F) of no other(C7) (Gmi7) (C7)
and we sang our own loves refrain (F)
And our hearts beat(C7) as one (F) as(F7) we had(Bb) our fun (Bbmi)
but Time(F) Chan-ges(D7) Eve(G7b5) ry(C7) Thing (F) Gmi7) (F)
And When you left me my poor heart was broken
Our romance seemed all in vain
The dark clouds are gone and there's blue skies again
Yes Time Changes Everything
The time has passed and I have forgotten you
Mother Nature does wonderful things
I guess it is true for me and for you
Cause Time Changes Everything
Oh you can change the name of an old song
Rearrange it and make it swing
I thought nothing could stop me from loving you
But time changes everything
So good luck to you and may God bless you
I can't say we won't love again
You have gone your way and I'll go mine
Cause Time changes everything
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