Alabama Jubilee
Music-Geo. L. Cobb
Key: G
Lyrics-Jack Yellen
Copyright 1915

Chords and Lyrics provided by Judy Muldawer
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Created 3/15/2019
Updated 06/06/2022

Verse 1:

G          D#7
Mandolins, violins
G               D7
Hear the banjos tunin’ up
    G        D7
The fun be - gins

G
Come this way
Em
Don't delay
A7
Better hurry honey dear
   D7        D9    D7
Or you'll be mis - sin'

G
Music sweet
D#7
Ragtime treat
G                  D7
Goes right to your head
             G
And trickles to your feet

A7
It's a reminder
  D
A memory finder
   A7                     D7   G#dimD7
Of nights down in old Ala bam'

Chorus:

           E7
You oughta see Deacon Jones
When he rattles the bones
A7
Old Parson Brown
Foolin' roun' like a clown

D7
Aunt Virginia, who is past eighty three
G
 Shoutin'"I'm full o' pep
G
 Watch yo' step watch yo'step"

E7
One legged Joe
Danced a roun' on his toe
Am             E7
Threw away his crutch and hollered,
Am
“Let ‘er go!"

   A7     G     B7
On  honey Hail! Hail!
    C          G
The gang's all here
       A7      D7     G   GdimD7
For an Alabama Jubil  ee.

Verse 2:

G
Hear that flute
D#7
It's a beaut
G                 D7
And the tunes it’stootin'
        G          D7
Tootsie ain't they cute

G
Let's begin
Em
It's a sin
A7
To be missing all this
      D7    D9 D7
Synco pated mu sic

G
Oh you Jane,
D#7
Once again
G                   D7
Give your legs some exercise
   G
To that refrain

A7
Boy that's what makes me so
D
Dreamy and takes me back
A7                 D7   G#dimD7
Home to my old Ala bam'

Chorus repeat:
End with:
GCm6G