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	D	A7
	Asked your mother for	you

	D
She told me that you was too	young

	G
I wish, dear Lord, that I'd never	seen your face

	D	A	D
I'm	sorry you	ever was	born.

CHORUS:

	D	A7
	Irene,	Goodnight

	D
Irene, Good	night

	G
Goodnight, Irene, Good	night, Irene

	D	A	D
I'll	get you	in my	dreams.

	D	A7
	Sometimes I live in the	country,

	D
Sometimes I live in	town.

	G
Sometimes I haves a great	notion

	D	A	D
To jump	into the	river and	drown.

CHORUS

	D	A7
	Stop ramblin' and stop	gamblin'

	D
Quit staying out late at	night

	G
Go home to your wife and your	family

	D	A	D
Stay	down by the	fireside	bright

CHORUS

	D	A7
	I loves Irene, God	knows I do

	D
Love her till the sea runs	dry

	G
If Irene turns her	back on me

	D	A	D
I'm gonna	take	morphine and	die

NOTES:

-i wouldn't put too much effort into getting it to sound exactly like leadbelly for a

reasons: he's playing a 12 string and so has the octave-high drones on every string, he

likely playing a guitar tuned at least a full step down or possessive of poor quality

heads that slipped constantly with the travel he did, and the original recording was

on wax cylinder so the fidelity is considerably less than perfect which gives it that

rough acoustic blues edge but makes it a pain to mimic. plus blues tradition was more

on individual artists giving their own touches to a lot of communal traditional songs,

fool around with it and make a version you can really call your own.

-the first instance of the IV chord (here an A) in the verses is always a 7th, but the

instance is not. the recording was too old and grainy for me to be 100% certain of this,

the second instance is only held for a split second anyway so i doubt anyone will

if you like to play it faster you can probably get away with the old blues trick of

the A chord instead of actually playing it by just hitting (x022xx), (x02xxx) or any

simple voicing of A.

-for a nice, subtle variation you can substitute Gsus (320033) for the G wherever you

didn't experiment with how this sounds in other keys with other suspended chords because

supposed to be writing an essay for literature class and i'm really just tabbing this to

:-P

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Goodnight Irene

Leadbelly

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