Chords
Blue Valley Songbird

Key: G

Introduction:

           G                                             D7                   G 
She was born in a place called Blue Valley
               C                                         G 
At the foot of the Tennessee hills
                   C                                                         G 
With the blue birds and blue bells and blue mountain water
                 A7                                               D7 
And the sound of the Blue Whippoorwill
         G                       D7                     G 
But there was no peace in the valley
         C                                           G 
Her daddy a cruel ruthless man
 C                                     G                       Em 
Used and abused her mind and her body
               G                 D7                       G 
So her mama said run while you can
                                     D7                   G 
So at fifteen she took to the highway
     C                                           G 
Belongings and guitar in hand
                 C                                         G   Em 
And she buried herself in her mu-sic
         G                         D7             G 
The one thing she did understand
                                           B7                     C                         G 
And she sings like a bird and she writes like a poet
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Her voice has that high lonesome sound
         G                         B7                       C                     G 
She hurts and her songs are the best way to show it
               C                     G                           D7               G 
So the Blue Valley songbird keeps traveling around
                     D7                             G 
She hopes someday she will make it
         C                                           G 
And everyone says that she will
           C                                 G 
When she comes to town crowds flock around
                       A7                                           D7 
To see the girl from the Tennessee hills
                       G                       D7                   G 
She writes letters back home to her momma
       C                                             G 
In care of the preacher in town
                 C                                       G                         Em 
They're sacred to her so she reads them at church
                       G               D7                       G 
And so her daddy cannot track her down
                                           B7                     C                       G 
And she sings like a bird and she cries like a baby
                                                       D7 
Whenever she turns off the lights
                 G                 B7                         C                   G 
She's a whole lot lonesome and a little bit crazy
           C                       G                       D7                   G 
From memories and miseries and dreams gone awry
                       B7                     C               G 
Blue dress blue shoes a blue Cadillac
                                                             D7 
A band dressed in blue by her side
 G                     B7                   C                     G 
Instruments tied to the top and the back
                     C                     G                     D7               G 
Cause the Blue Valley songbird is singing tonight
                           B7                   C                       G 
One nighters honky tonks years flying by
 C                     G                     D7                         G 
She's never made it but Lord knows she tries
                               B7             C                     G 
Expressing the feelings she holds inside
                 C                     G                     D7               G 
And the Blue Valley songbird is singing tonight
               C                     G                     D7               G 
Oh the Blue Valley songbird is singing tonight
                                           B7                     C                         G 
And she sings like a bird and she writes like a poet