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Chords for "Kentucky Moon"
Date: August 11, 2000 2:37 PM
From: Julia Reinhart
KENTUCKY MOON
R.D. Davies
D9Never been A9anywhere
A9South of the C9Delaware
G9Never been through AKahalamazoo
G7  C7&9 D   D  Dm¤ G6  
Never been to Timbuk - tu (instrumental)
D9Living is A9fanasy
A9Travelling C9mentally
G9Making up tunes Ain hotel rooms
G7  C7&9 D   D  Dm¤ G6  
'bout places I've never been to (instrumental)
A   G7  C7&9 D   C   A   F   D   C  A/ C#   D   C  A/C#  
Though I've never cruised under a Kentucky Moon (instrumental)
DI Chave my Adream - FKentucky DMoon C(instA/C#rumental)D  
But it's Gall Fimi - Dtary
From Gsongs, Ffilms and T - DV
But I Gcan Fvisua - Dlise what CI've never Aseen
DI Chave my Adream ­ FKentucky DMoon. C(iA/C#nstrumeDntaCl)A/C#  
D9Route sixty - A9six to me
A9Is still a C9mystery
G9And Ohaho, too when AChicago Blue
G7Gone to Saint CLouis DBlues
D9Never been A9anywhere
A9South of the C9Delaware
G9Never been through AKahalamazoo
G7  C7&9 D   G   F   D   G   F  D  
Never been to Timbuk - tu (instrumental)
But I Gcan Fvisua - Dlise what CI've never Aseen
D   C   A   F   D   C   A   F   D   C  A/ C#   D   C  A/C#  
So I sit and dream ­ Kentucky Moon (instrumental)
As I Dsit Cwhile I Asleep Fin my Droom (?? NoCt surA/C#e about Dthat text line ­ can anyone help?)
But it's Gjust Fimi - Dtary
From Gsongs, Ffilms and T - DV
But I Gcan Fvisua - Dlise what CI've never Aseen
So DI Csit and Adream ­ FKentucky DMoon C(insA/C#trumenDtal)C  A/C#  
Dm¤ should read as Dmdim ( D   F  Ab)
Bonus Track on "Muswell Hillbillies", Velvel re-issue 1998
Recorded on September 16, 1971
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