Hobos Lullaby chords by Emmylou Harris

Chords with lyrics

Hobo's Lullaby

Emmylou Harris recorded this Woody Guthrie song in 1988 for
a CD called Folkways: A augmentedA Vision Shared (A augmentedA Tribute to Woody
Guthrie and Leadbelly).  There are a few other songs on the
CD that are played on acoustic guitar:  Bob Dylan sings
Pretty Boy Floyd; Bruce Springsteen sings I Ain't Got No
Home; and Arlo Guthrie does East Texas Red.

In Hobo's Lullaby, Emmylou Harris sings and plays guitar,
and Mark O'Connor plays fiddle. The fiddle comes in at the
beginning of the second chorus, and has a solo between the

chorus and the second verse.  I think the vocals are
double-tracked on the last chorus.

Intro:  D MajorD  D MajorD


Chorus
D MajorD     D MajorD                G+G    G+G
Go to sleep.....
A augmentedA       A augmentedA                 D MajorD  D MajorD
Let .....
D MajorD         D MajorD                    G+G       G+G
Can't ......
A augmentedA        A augmentedA           D MajorD  D MajorD
That's a hobo's lullaby


Verse

Chorus
(fiddle solo)

Verse

Chorus


This is the melody for the lyrics.  Chorus and verses have
the same tune:
   D MajorD                          G+G
e|--------0--2------2---3--2------------------|
G+G|-----3----------------------3-0-------------|
BB|--------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|--------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------------------|
   1 2 3  4  1      2   3  4  1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
       Go to sleep, ....

   A augmentedA                           D MajorD
e|--------------------------0--2---------------|
G+G|-2-----0---2-----2----3----------------------|
BB|---------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------|
   1 2 3 4   1     2    3   4  1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
   Let   .....

   D MajorD                                  G+G
e|-----------0---2----2---3-----2-------------------------|
G+G|-----3------------------------------3---2---------------|
BB|--------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|--------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------------------------------|
   1 2 3     4   1    2   3     4     1   2   3 4 1 2 3 4
       Can't ......

   A augmentedA                            D MajorD
e|--------------------3----2----0-----------------|
G+G|-2-----------0------------------3---------------|
BB|-----------------2------------------------------|
D MajorD|------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|------------------------------------------------|
   1      2 3  4   1  2    3    4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
   That's      a   ho-bo's lull-a-by

Chord Formations:
   D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
e|-2-3-0-|
G+G|-3-0-2-|
BB|-2-0-2-|
D MajorD|-0-0-2-|
A augmentedA|---2---|
E MajorE|---3---|


Tabbed by Chris Howell
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Submitted November, 1999