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1 BeginningGuitarSusan C. Anthony2 ContentsHow to Play the Songs .. 4 Songs with C and G7 Are You Sleeping? .. 5 Row, Row, Row Your Boat .. 5 Long, Long Ago .. 6 Skip to My Lou .. 7Go Tell Aunt Rhody .. 8 Tom Dooley .. 9He s Got the Whole World .. 10 Billy Boy .. 11 Down in the Valley .. 12 Pick a Bale of Cotton .. 13 Polly Wolly Doodle .. 14 Streets of Laredo .. 15 Songs with G, D7, C and G7 This Old Man .. 16 Buffalo Gals .. 17 Shenandoah .. 18 She ll Be Coming Round the Mountain .. 19 The 20 This Land is Your Land.

2 21 Will the Circle Be Unbroken? .. 22 Bamboo .. 23 You Are My Sunshine .. 243 Songs with minor chordsShalom .. 24 Hey Ho, Nobody Home .. 24 Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill .. 25 Battle of Jericho .. 26 The Drunken 27 Sinner Man .. 29 Songs with C, F and G or G7 Cool Water .. 30 Good Night, Ladies .. 31Oh, Susanna .. 32 Songs with A, E, and DMichael Row the Boat Ashore .. 33 When the Saints Go Marching In .. 34 Appendix: Full Chord Diagrams .. 354 How to Play the SongsThe chords for each song are shown on the samepage as the song.

3 The vertical (up and down)lines stand for the strings and the horizontal(sideways) lines are the numbers in the circles stand for the fingerson your left hand. 1 is the first finger, the pointerfinger. 2 is the middle finger. 3 is the ring is the little of StringsAn X at the top of the string ,shows that you do not play that string atall. An O at the top of the string means that you play that string start with, just strum down with your thumb over the three or fourstrings that you are supposed to play.

4 The slash marks over the wordsshow where you should strum. It is important to sing along. If youdo not know the tune of a song, go to the next can play lots of songs with just two chords, C and G7, beforemore difficult chords are : This booklet may be reproduced for use with You Sleeping?Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping?Brother John. Brother bells are bells are , ding, dong. Ding, ding, /////////Row, Row, Row Your BoatRow, row, row your boatGently down the , merrily, merrily, merrilyLife is but a , Long AgoTell me the tales that to me were so dear,Long, long ago, long, long me the songs I delighted to , long ago, long to My Lou1.

5 Flies in the buttermilk, shoo fly in the buttermilk, shoo fly in the buttermilk, shoo fly to my lou, my Skip, skip, skip to my , skip, skip to my , skip, skip to my to my lou, my Little red wagon painted Lost my partner, what ll I do?4. I ll get another one, better than //8Go Tell Aunt Rhody1. Go tell Aunt Rhody,Go tell Aunt Rhody,Go tell Aunt Rhody,The old gray goose is The one that she s been saving,The one that she s been one that she s been savingTo make a feather She died in the millpond,She died in the millpond,She died in the millpond,A-standing on her DooleyCh.

6 Hang down your head, Tom Dooley,Hang down your head and down your head, Tom Dooley,Poor boy, you re bound to Met her on the I took her her on the mountain,Stabbed her with my This time tomorrow,Reckon where I ll in some lonesome valley,Hanging from a white oak s Got the Whole WorldCh. He s got the whole world in his hands,He s got the whole world in his hands,He s got the whole world in his hands,He s got the whole world in his He s got you and me, brother, in his s got you and me, brother, in his s got you and me, brother, in his s got the whole world in his He s got the little bitty baby in his s got the little bitty baby in his s got the little bitty baby in his s got the whole world in his /G7//CC///G7///C///G7//CG7//CC///G7///C/ //11 Billy Boy1.

7 Oh, where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?Oh, where have you been, charmin Billy?I have been to seek a wife,She s the joy of my s a young thing and cannot leave her Did she bid you to come in, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?Did she bid you to come in, charmin Billy?Yes, she bade me to come in,And to kiss her on the s a young thing and cannot leave her Did she offer you a chair, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?Did she offer you a chair, charmin Billy?Yes, she offered me a chair,But the bottom wasn t there,She s a young thing and cannot leave her in the ValleyDown in the valley, valley so your head over, hear the wind the wind blow, dear, hear the wind your head over, hear the wind love sunshine, violets love in heaven know I love I love you, dear, know I love in heaven know I love /C/ //////////CG7//C/G7////13 Pick a Bale of Cotton1.

8 You ve got to jump down, turn around,Pick a bale of down, turn aroundPick a bale a Oh, lawdy, pick a bale of cotton,Oh, lawdy, pick a bale a Me and my partner canPick a bale of and my partner canPick a bale a Wolly Doodle1. Oh, I went down south for to see my SalSing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day;My Sal, she is a spunky gal,Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the Fare thee well, fare thee well,Fare thee well, my fairy fay,For I m going to Louisiana, for to see my SusyannaSing Polly Wolly Doodle all the Oh, a grasshopper sitting on a railroad trackPicking his teeth with a carpet came a train and broke his old back,Made his old tail go of Laredo1.

9 As I walked out on the streets of Laredo,As I walked out in Laredo one day,I spied a young cowboy wrapped up in white linen,Wrapped up in white linen as cold as the I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy,These words he did say as I boldly stepped sit down beside me and hear my sad story,I was shot in the breast and I know I must We ll play the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,We ll play the dead march as we carry him ll go to the graveyard and lay the sod o er was a young cowboy but he had done Old Man1.

10 This old man, he played one,He played knick knack on my a knick knack paddy wackGive the dog a old man came marching This old man, he played two,He played knick knack on my a knick knack paddy wackGive the dog a old man came marching This old man, he played three,He played knick knack on my a knick knack paddy wackGive the dog a old man came marching Gals1. As I was walking down the street,Down the street, down the pretty girl I chanced to meetUnder the silvery Buffalo gals, won t you come out tonight,Come out tonight, come out gals, won t you come out tonight,And dance by the light of the /G///////D7//D7G///G/18 Shenandoah1.