My Old Kentucky Home

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                My Old Kentucky Home - Randy Newman
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Tabbed by: dimindcutr
Tuning: Standard

Three Dog Night
My Old Kentucky Home (1972)
(Randy Newman)

From: "Seven Separate Fools"
Notes: The outro "mmmmm"s are sung to the melody of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"


[Intro]
| C | G | D | G |

[Verse]
G
Turpentine and dandelion wine
     G7                     C
I've turned the corner, I'm doin' fine
C                            G
Shootin' at the birds on the telephone line
D                          G
Pickin' them off with this gun o' mine
         C                     G
I got a fire in my belly and a fire in my head
        D                           G
Growing higher and higher 'till I'm dead

[Verse]
G
Sister Sue she's short and stout
    G7                       C
She didn't grow up, she grew out
C                                  G
Mama thinks she's pretty, but she's just being kind
D                                  G
Papa thinks she's lovely, and he's half blind
   C                        G
We don't let her out much except at night
    D                           G
But I don't care 'cause I'm all right

[Interlude]
| C | G | D | G |

[Chorus]
          G                       C            G
Oh, the sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home
        G                       D
Where the young folks play on the floor
        G                       C            G
Oh, the sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home
     G                D           G
Keep them mad times away from my door

[Verse]
G
Brother Gene, he's big and mean
       G7                 C
And he don't have much to say
   C                          G
He had a little woman that he whooped each day
D                   G
But now she's gone away
    C                        G
Got drunk last night, kicked mama down the stairs
    D                         G
But I'm all right, so I don't care

[Chorus]
        G                       C            G
Oh, the sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home
        G                       D
Where the young folks play on the floor
        G                       C            G
Oh, the sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home
     G                D           G
Keep the mad times away from my door

[Outro]
  G         C    G
Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmm
  G        D   C   G
Mmmm mmmm mmm mmm mmmm