GOOD NIGHT IRENE (Listen to midi)

 

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1. As young love for you, she told me that you was too young,

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    I wish, the Lord, that I’d never seen your face, I’m sorry you all was born.

 

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Irene good ni…ght, Irene good night,

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good night Irene, good night Irene, I’ll see you in my dreams.

 

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2. Sometimes I lives in the country, sometimes I lives in town,

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    sometimes I have the great notion to jump in into the river and drown.

 

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Irene good ni…ght, Irene good night,

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good night Irene, good night Irene, I’ll see you in my dreams.

 

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3. Stop rambling and stop gambling, quit staying out late at night

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    go home unto your wife and your family, stay down by the fireside bright.

 

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Irene good ni…ght, Irene good night,

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good night Irene, good night Irene, I’ll see you in my dreams.

 

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4. I loves Irene, God knows I do, loves her till the sea runs dry,

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    if Irene turns her back on me, I'm gonna take morphine and die.

 

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Irene good ni…ght, Irene good night,

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good night Irene, good night Irene, I’ll see you in my dreams.

 

(capo 1st)        (Woody Guthrie)