• Song:

    Kembas Got The Cabbage Moth Blues

  • Artist:

    Shovels And Rope

Cary Ann is a madwoman on the guitar, so this tune can be hard to keep up with. I suggest watching 
a video of them playing to help with the timing and to see what she's doing with the bass notes 
(it's a lot of hopping between C and G). The chords should be good though.

"Kemba's Got the Cabbage Moth Blues"
by Shovels & Rope
O' Be Joyful

C                                                                G
Hot shit singer in a low rent dive, looking like she wanna eat a man alive
C                                                                           G
Legs getting to kicking in her worn out shoes, Kemba’s got the cabbage moth blues
C                                                            G
Laundry in Los Angeles and ol' St. Lou, left Carolina with a load or two
C                                                                               G
Down in Kentucky, she got 'em hanging on the line, mama always dressed so fine

F
Tell Kentucky how ya turnip greens grow
C
Tell California every thing you know

Tell New York, tell Tennessee
                        G          C
Come to Carolina and ya drink's on me

C                                                     G
Too much chickens in the hen house now, hens stay in, roosters get out
C                                                                       G
See that red chicken sitting on an egg, the fox got the rooster and the rooster got dead
C                                                                      G
Gotta plant a row to get a pot of beans, how ya keep the cabbage mouth off your greens
C                                                                                G
Just put hot peppers right on the leaves, you better wash em off good before you serve em to me

F
Tell Kentucky how ya turnip greens grow
C
Tell California every thing you know

Tell New York, tell Tennessee
                        G          C
Come to Carolina and ya drink's on me

       F
It was whiskey and the whiskey and the whiskey and the whiskey

and the whiskey and the whiskey while the music did play
  C
I hope my mama didn’t float away
                                G
I heard that the Cumberland was out of the bank

F
Tell Kentucky how ya turnip greens grow
C
Tell California every thing you know

Tell New York, tell Tennessee
                        G          C
Come to Carolina and ya drink's on me

F
Tell Kentucky how ya turnip greens grow
C
Tell California every thing you know

Tell New York, tell Tennessee
                        G          F    C
Come to Carolina and ya drink's on me
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