Way Over Yonder In A Minor Key
Billy Bragg & Wilco (Woody Guthrie & Billy Bragg (1998)


4/4 | d - D - d - D - | for Intro  | d - D - | for 1/2 bar chords
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Later changes to swiss army strum   4/4 | D - D u - u d u |

| [A]   | [1/2A]   | [D]   | [D]   |
| [D]   | [1/2D]   | [A]   | [A]   |

I | [A] lived in a place called | [1/2A] Okfus- | [D] kee | [D]
And I | [D] had a little girl in a | [1/2D] holler | [A] tree | [A]
I | [A] said, little girl, it's | [1/2A] plain to | [D] see | [D] |
| [D] Ain't nobody that can | [1/2D] sing like | [1/2A] me |
| [Bm] Ain't nobody that can | [1/2Bm] sing like | [F#m] me | [F#m] | [F#m] | [F#m]

She | [A] said it's hard for | [1/2A] me to | [D] see | [D]
How | [D] one little boy got | [1/2D] so ug- | [A] ly | [A] |
| [A] Yes my little girly | [1/2A] that might | [D] be | [D]
But there | [D] ain't nobody that can | [1/2D] sing like | [1/2A] me |
| [Bm] Ain't nobody that can | [1/2Bm] sing like | [F#m] me | [F#m]

Chorus
| [D] Way over yonder in the | [1/2D] minor | [A] key | [A] |
| [Bm] Way over yonder in the | [1/2Bm] minor | [A] key | [A]
There | [Bm] ain't nobody that can | [1/2Bm] sing like | [F#m] me | [F#m] | [F#m] | [F#m]

We | [A] walked down by the | [1/2A] buckeye | [D] creek | [D]
To | [D] see the frog eat the | [1/2D] goggle- eyed | [A] bee | [A]
To | [A] hear that west wind | [1/2A] whistle to the | [D] east | [D]
There | [D] ain't nobody that can | [1/2D] sing like | [1/2A] me |
| [Bm] Ain't nobody that can | [1/2Bm] sing like | [F#m] me | [F#m] | [F#m] | [F#m] |

| [A] Oh my little girly will you | [1/2A] let me | [D] see | [D] |
| [D] Way over yonder where the | [1/2D] wind blows | [A] free | [A] |
| [A] Nobody can see in our | [1/2A] holler | [D] tree | [D]
And there | [D] ain't nobody that can | [1/2D] sing like | [1/2A] me |
| [Bm] Ain't nobody that can | [1/2Bm] sing like | [F#m] me | [F#m] |

Chorus
| [D] Way over yonder in the | [1/2D] minor | [A] key | [A] |
| [Bm] Way over yonder in the | [1/2Bm] minor | [A] key | [A]
There | [Bm] ain't nobody that can | [1/2Bm] sing like | [F#m] me | [F#m] |

Instrumental
| [D]   | [1/2D]   | [A]   | [A] |
| [Bm] | [1/2Bm] | [A]   | [A] |
| [Bm] | [1/2Bm] | [F#m] | [F#m] | [F#m] | [F#m]

Her | [A] mama cut a switch from a | [1/2A] cherry | [D] tree | [D]
And | [D] laid it on to | [1/2D] she and | [A] me | [A]
It | [A] stung lots worse than the | [1/2A] hive of | [D] bees | [D]
But there | [D] ain't nobody that can | [1/2D] sing like | [1/2A] me |
| [Bm] Ain't nobody that can | [1/2Bm] sing like | [F#m] me | [F#m] | [F#m] | [F#m]

Now | [A] I have walked a | [1/2A] long, long | [D] ways | [D] |
| [D] Still look back to my | [1/2D] tanglewood | [A] days | [A]
I've | [A] led lots of girls since | [1/2A] then to | [D] stray | [D]
Sayin' | [D] ain't nobody that can | [1/2D] sing like | [1/2A] me |
| [Bm] Ain't nobody that can | [1/2Bm] sing like | [F#m] me | [F#m] |

Chorus
| [D] Way over yonder in the | [1/2D] minor | [A] key | [A] |
| [Bm] Way over yonder in the | [1/2Bm] minor | [A] key | [A]
There | [Bm] ain't nobody that can | [1/2Bm] sing like | [F#m] me | [F#m] |

Chorus
| [D] Way over yonder in the | [1/2D] minor | [A] key | [A] |
| [Bm] Way over yonder in the | [1/2Bm] minor | [A] key | [A] |
| [Bm] Ain't nobody that can | [1/2Bm] sing like | [F#m] me | [F#m] |
| [Bm] Ain't nobody that can | [1/2Bm] sing like | [F#m] me | [F#m] |
| [Bm]   | [1/2Bm]   | [F#m] me | [F#m]   | [F#m↓]

#Capo on 2nd fret to play with original.

#Last Updated 04/04/2022 JJ
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