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Kentucky Girl

Larry Sparks

Key of G · Chords: I V

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Verse 1

G                 D7
Kentucky girl are you lonesome tonight
                     G
Kentucky girl do you miss me
                                D7
Does that old moon shine on the bluegrass as bright
                                 G
As it did on the night you first kissed me

Verse 2

                      D7
In a valley neath the mountain so high
                              G
The sweetest place in all the world
                D7
In a cabin with vines on the door
                           G
Is where I met my Kentucky girl

Verse 1

G                 D7
Kentucky girl are you lonesome tonight
                     G
Kentucky girl do you miss me
                                D7
Does that old moon shine on the bluegrass as bright
                                 G
As it did on the night you first kissed me

Verse 3

                       D7
I'm far await from old Kentucky tonight
                                   G
And the blue-eyed girl that I love so
                        D7
But I'm heading home in the silvery moon light
                           G
With open arms she waits I know

Verse 1

G                 D7
Kentucky girl are you lonesome tonight
                     G
Kentucky girl do you miss me
                                D7
Does that old moon shine on the bluegrass as bright
                                 G
As it did on the night you first kissed me

Verse 1

G                 D7
Kentucky girl are you lonesome tonight
                     G
Kentucky girl do you miss me
                                D7
Does that old moon shine on the bluegrass as bright
                                 G
As it did on the night you first kissed me