Hobos Lullaby chords by Emmylou Harris
Guitar chords with lyrics
Hobo's Lullaby Emmylou Harris recorded this Woody Guthrie song in 1988 for a CD called Folkways: A Vision Shared (A 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 D
Chorus
D D G G
Go to sleep.....
A A D D
Let .....
D D G G
Can't ......
A A D D
That's a hobo's lullaby
Verse
Chorus
(fiddle solo)
Verse
Chorus
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This is the melody for the lyrics. Chorus and verses have
the same tune:
D G
e|--------0--2------2---3--2------------------|
G|-----3----------------------3-0-------------|
B|--------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Go to sleep, ....
A D
e|--------------------------0--2---------------|
G|-2-----0---2-----2----3----------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Let .....
D G
e|-----------0---2----2---3-----2-------------------------|
G|-----3------------------------------3---2---------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Can't ......
A D
e|--------------------3----2----0-----------------|
G|-2-----------0------------------3---------------|
B|-----------------2------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------|
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 G A
e|-2-3-0-|
G|-3-0-2-|
B|-2-0-2-|
D|-0-0-2-|
A|---2---|
E|---3---|
Tabbed by Chris Howell
Comments and corrections can be mailed to
cwhowell@student.umass.edu
Submitted November, 1999 Last updated:
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