Jimmie The Kid chords by Jimmie Rodgers

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: G+G

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
   G+G
I'll tell you a story of Jimmie the Kid
    C majorC        G+G
He's a brakeman you all know
    C majorC           G+G
He was born in Mississippi a-way down south
    A augmentedA       D MajorD G+G
and he flagged on the TN&O

  G+G
He yodeled to fame on the Boston ‘n’ Maine
  C majorC        G+G
The Wabash and the TP
     C majorC           G+G
From the old Grand Trunk to the Cotton Belt
  A minorAm       D MajorD   G+G
he yodeled on the Santa Fe

Chorus:
   G+G
Yodel-ee-dle-odle-ay-ee,
D MajorD             G+G
Yodel-ee-dle-eedle-ay-ee-hee

Verse 2:
    G+G
On the Lehigh Valley he yodeled awhile
    C majorC         G+G
then he went to the Nickel Plate
     C majorC           G+G
From the old Lake Shore and the Erie Line
  A minorAm     D MajorD    G+G
He yodels to a Cadillac Eight

Chorus:
   G+G     D MajorD
Yodel-ayee-yodle-olde-ayee
        G+G
yodle-odle-odle-ay-ee,

Verse 3:
  G+G
He yodeled his way to the C&A
  C majorC        G+G
The Lackawanna and IC
  C majorC             G+G
He rode a rattler called the Cannonball
    A minorAm       D MajorD G+G
then he yodeled on the MK&T

Chorus:
    G+G
Yodel-ayee,yodle-olde-ayee
D MajorD     G+G
Yodel-odle-ayee

Verse 4:
    G+G
Now the story goes that Jimmie the Kid
   C majorC        G+G
Has a yodeling mama so sweet
C majorC          G+G
They go Cadillacin' every night
     A minorAm      D MajorD     G+G
and they yodel up and down the street

Chorus:
    G+G
Yodel-ayee,yodle-olde-ayee
D MajorD     G+G
Yodel-odle-ayee

Verse 5:
   G+G
He's rode freight trains from East to West
   C majorC        G+G
he's fixed himself up nice
      C majorC         G+G
He's got a beautiful home all of his own
     A minorAm    D MajorD  G+G
It's the yodeler's paradise

Chorus:
    G+G
Yodel-ee-dle-odle-ay-ee,
D MajorD             G+G
Yodel-ee-dle-eedle-ay-ee-hee

Verse 6:
    G+G
They've treated him good they've treated him bad
  C majorC       G+G
he never done any wrong
  C majorC       G+G
He yodels a yodel everybody knows
    A minorAm    C majorC     G+G
is the yodeling brakeman's song

Chorus:
    G+G
Yodel-ayee,yodle-olde-ayee
D MajorD     G+G
Yodel-odle-ayee