Chords
Baltimore Oriole

Key: E

Introduction:

  Cm  G    Cm  F    Bb  D  
  Gm  Gm/F    Cm      Eb  D  
  Gm  Gm/F    Eb7  D7  
Verse
Gm                         Gm/F  
     Baltimore Oriole
C                 Cm                            Gm                    F              Gm  
  Took a look at that mercury, forty below
Cm                                 C2  
  No life for a lady
Cm              Ab7                         Gm                    F                              Gm  Gm7  
     To be draggin' her feathers around in the snow
Bridge
Cm                         G         Cm                 F  
  Leaving me blue, off she flew
                  Bb                      D                                 Gm  
To the Tangipaho, down in Louisiana
                     Gm/F                    Cm  
Where a two, timin' Jaybird
Eb                                              D7  
Met the divine Miss O
          D7/4                                                         D7  
I'd like to ruffle his plumage
Verse
             Gm                    Gm/F  
That Baltimore Oriole
C                    Cm                                    Gm  
  Messed around with that big guy
                     F                            Gm    Gm/F  
Till he singed her wings
Cm                                 C2  
     Forgivin' is easy
Cm                 Ab7                      Gm  
     It?s a woman like, now and then
                F                      Gm  
Could happen to thing
Bridge
Cm                                 G  
  Send her back home
Cm                         F                                         Bb  
  Home ain't home without her warbling
D                              Gm  
  How she can sing
                  Gm/F                 Cm            Eb                    D7    Gm  
Make a lonely man happy, Baltimore Oriole
  Gm  Gm/F    Eb7         D7                              Gm  
                                     Come down from that bough
Solo
  Gm  Gm/F    C  Cm    Gm  F    Gm  Gm/F  
  Cm  C2    Cm  Ab7    Gm  F    Gm  Gm/F  
Bridge
Cm                                 G  
  Send her back home
Cm                         F                                         Bb  
  Home ain't home without her warbling
D                              Gm  
  How she can sing
                  Gm/F                 Cm            Eb                    D7    Gm  
Make a lonely man happy, Baltimore Oriole
  Gm  Gm/F    Eb7         D7                              Gm  
                                     Come down from that bough
  Gm  Gm/F    Eb7                            D7      Gm  
                                     Fly to your daddy now
Solo
  Gm  Gm/F    C  Cm    Gm  F    Gm  Gm/F  
  Cm  C2    Cm  Ab7    Gm  F    Gm  
  Cm  G    Cm  F    Bb  D  
  Gm  Gm/F    Cm      Eb  D  
  Gm  Gm/F    Eb7  D7  
(fade during last four bars)