Capo III * A5 B5 E5 E5 A5 A5 B5 My old man had a rounder soul E5 E5 A5 He'd hear an ol' freight train and he'd have to go A5 B5 Said he'd been blessed with a gypsy bone E5 E5 A5 And that's the reason I guess that he'd been cursed to roam A5 B5 Came to town back before the war E5 E5 A5 Didn't even know what it was he was lookin' for A5 B5 He carried a tattered bag for his violin E5 E5 A5 Full of lots of songs of the places he had been A5 B5 He talked real easy, he had a smiling way E5 E5 A5 He could pass along to you when his fiddle played A5 B5 Makin' people drop their cares and woes E5 E5 A5 And hum out loud the tunes that his fiddle bowed A5 B5 Til the people there began to join that sound E5 E5 A5 And ev'ryone in town was laughin,' singin,' dancin' 'round A5 B5 Like the Fiddler's tunes we all there heard that night E5 E5 A5 Like some dream that says all the world is right Instrumental Break The Fiddler's eye caught a beauty there She had that rollin' flowin' golden kind of hair He played for her as if she danced alone He played his favorite songs, the ones he called his own She alone was dancin' in the room The only thing left movin' to that Fiddler's tune Instrumental break He played until she was the last to go The he stopped and packed his case, said he'd take her home In all the nights that passed a child was born In all the years that passed, love would keep them warm And all their lives they'd share that dream come true And all because she danced so well his fiddler tune Instrumental break The train next mornin' blew a lonesome sound As if she sang the blues of what she took from town And all that I recall that was said when I was young There's no one else could really sing those songs he sung * Alternate: Open
