intro
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Gather round ladies, gather round

Hear the news that’s comin’ down

The ships are in and the sails are down

The boys are back in town

Get your skirts down off the rack

The boys are in and the boys are back

And no time now for takin’ slack

The boys are back in town

Well the boys are back in town, your true love can be found

Gather round the old playground, the boys are back in town

banjo solo dobro solo
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They’ve been gone for quite a while

Man it’s good to see ‘em smile

Now they’re loaded up on style

The boys are back in town

Come in the house get out of the cold

See ‘em comin’ down the road

Gonna raise some hell ‘cause don’t you know

The [(B)]boys are back in town

Well the boys are back in town, your true love can be found

Gather round the old playground, the boys are back in town

Well the boys are back in town, your true love can be found

Gather round the old playground, the boys are back in town

fiddle outro
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CAPO CHART
no capo – capo 2
I: E – D
IV: A – G
V: B – A

INTRO: G

I am a soul__ of constant sorrow
I’ve seen trouble all my days
I bid farewell__ to east Kentucky
The place where I was born and raised

For many a year__ I have struggled
No pleasure here on earth I’ve found
All through this world__ I’m bound to wander
There is no one to help me now

INSTRUMENTAL: G F C G F C D

You can bury me in some deep valley
For many a year in peace I’ll lay
Then you may learn__ to love another
While I am sleeping in my grave

It’s fare-you-well__ my own true lover
I never ‘spect to see you again
But there’s one pro__omise that is given
I’ll meet you in god’s golden land

She loved him most when his eyes were grey
The palest shade of a winter day
They filled her with a raging fire
And a bittersweet desire

She shined for him like candlelight
That softly beckons in the night
But he said no right to her face
Then simply turned and walked away

CHORUS:
All heaven watched from way on high
True love given and denied
And while her heart was broke and bleeding
Sorrowful angels wept into their wings

She wore him like a lock and chain
Only in dreams she spoke his name
By day it slept upon her tongue
The taste of unrequited love

Now her hair is long and grey
The palest shade of a winter day
She never took a ring of gold
She swears she never loved a soul

CHORUS:
All heaven watched from way on high
True love given and denied
And while her heart was broke and bleeding
Sorrowful angels wept into their wings
Sorrowful angels wept into their wings

She loved him most when his eyes were grey