Little Joe

Hank Snow

Written by A.P. Carter, Maybelle Carter, Sara Carter

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

C                      F             C
What will the birds do mother in the spring
G7
When they stop to gather crumbs around the door
C                                              F
Will they fly from the trees half as nice with glee
G7                            C
Asking why Joe wanders out no more

Verse 2

F                                  C
What will the kitten do mother all alone
G7
Will he stop from his frolic for the day
C                                        F
Will he lie on his rug by the side of my bed
G7                      C
As he did before I went away

Verse 3

F                                  C
What will Thomas that old gardener say
G7
When you ask him for flowers for me
C                                          F
Will he give you a rose he has tended with care
G7                             C
The first fairest bloom of the tree

Verse 4

F                                       C
I have seen the tears in his honest old eyes
G7
But he said it was the wind that brought them there
C                                           F
As he gazed on my cheeks growing paler each day
G7                                     C
And his hand went trembling through my hair

Verse 5

F                               C
Keep tied mother my poor little dog
G7
For I know he'll mourn for me too
C                                     F
Just keep him when old and useless he grows
G7                        C
Sleeping the whole summer through

Verse 6

F                                    C
Show him my coat mother so he'll not forget
G7
His master who then will be dead
C                                     F
Just speak to him kindly and often of Joe
G7                              C
And pat him on his brown shaggy head

Verse 7

F                                        C
And you dearest mother may miss me for a while
G7
But in heaven I'll no larger grow
C                                   F
And any kind angel will know at the gate
G7                                   C
When you ask for your darling little Joe