Get Along Home Cindy Cindy

Ricky Nelson

Traditional

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

C
I wish I was a apple
             G7
Hanging in a tree
    C             F
And every time my sweetheart passed
G7           F       C
She'd take a bite of me

Verse 2

She told me that she loved me
                    G7
She called me sugar plum
    C              F
She threw her arms around me
  G7         F        C
I thought my time had come

Verse 3

          F
Get along home Cindy Cindy
          C
Get along home Cindy Cindy
          F
Get along home Cindy Cindy
     G7            C
I'll marry you sometime

Verse 4

Cindy got religion
                G7
She had it once before
    C                 F
But when she heard my old guitar
G7              F          C
She’s the first one on the floor

Verse 5

I wish I had a needle
                   G7
As fine as I could sew
    C                  F
I'd sew the girl to my coattail
G7           F        C
And down the road I’d go

Verse 2

She told me that she loved me
                    G7
She called me sugar plum
    C              F
She threw her arms around me
  G7         F        C
I thought my time had come

Verse 6

Cindy in the spring time
             G7
Cindy in the fall
   C               F
If I can’t have my Cindy girl
G7           F       C
I’ll have no girl at all

Verse 2

She told me that she loved me
                    G7
She called me sugar plum
    C              F
She threw her arms around me
  G7         F        C
I thought my time had come