Blue Valley Songbird chords by Dolly Parton

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She was born in a place called Blue Valley

    C           G
At the foot of the Tennessee hills

     C               G
With the blue birds and blue bells and blue mountain water

    A7            D7
And the sound of the Blue Whippoorwill


  G      D7      G
But there was no peace in the valley

  C           G
Her daddy a cruel ruthless man

C          G      Em
Used and abused her mind and her body

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So her mama said run while you can


         D7     G
So at fifteen she took to the highway

 C           G
Belongings and guitar in hand

    C           G Em
And she buried herself in her mu-sic

  G       D7    G
The one thing she did understand


           B7      C       G
And she sings like a bird and she writes like a poet

                 D7
Her voice has that high lonesome sound

  G       B7      C      G
She hurts and her songs are the best way to show it

    C      G       D7    G
So the Blue Valley songbird keeps traveling around


     D7        G
She hopes someday she will make it

  C           G
And everyone says that she will

   C         G
When she comes to town crowds flock around

      A7           D7
To see the girl from the Tennessee hills


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She writes letters back home to her momma

  C            G
In care of the preacher in town

    C          G       Em
They're sacred to her so she reads them at church

      G    D7      G
And so her daddy cannot track her down


           B7      C      G
And she sings like a bird and she cries like a baby

              D7
Whenever she turns off the lights

    G     B7       C     G
She's a whole lot lonesome and a little bit crazy

   C      G      D7     G
From memories and miseries and dreams gone awry


      B7      C    G
Blue dress blue shoes a blue Cadillac

               D7
A band dressed in blue by her side

G      B7     C      G
Instruments tied to the top and the back

     C      G      D7    G
Cause the Blue Valley songbird is singing tonight


       B7     C      G
One nighters honky tonks years flying by

C      G      D7       G
She's never made it but Lord knows she tries

        B7    C      G
Expressing the feelings she holds inside

    C      G      D7    G
And the Blue Valley songbird is singing tonight


    C      G      D7    G
Oh the Blue Valley songbird is singing tonight

           B7      C       G
And she sings like a bird and she writes like a poet