Key: C
Introduction:
C F G7
It's a nickel for the fiddler
C F
It's a nickel for his tune
C F G7
It's a nickel for the tambourine kind of afternoon
F G7 C F
And it's a high holiday on the twenty-first of June
C F G7
And it's country music in the park
C
And everybody's ruined
F G7
It's fountains full of dogs and kids
C F
And it's streaky apple pie
C F
It's the ones who came to play
G7
And the ones just passin' by
F G7
It's coats of many colors
C F
And it almost makes me cry
C F
It's ice cream on a stick
G7 C
And it's somethin' you can't buy
F G7
It's a fiddler from Kentucky
C F
Who swears he's eighty three
C F
And he's fiddled every contest
G7
From here to Cripple Creek
F G7
It's old ones and it's young ones
C F
And it's plain they have agreed
C F
And it's country music in the park
G7 C
As far as they can see