JIMMIE THE KID (Jimmie Rodgers) Merle Haggard(IF I COULD BE HIM) Strangers/Swinging Doors Album November 16, 2008 Banjo tuned E Key of D, Capo 1 Jimmie the Kid (If I Could Be Him)
D G D E7 A D I'll tell you a story of Jimmie the Kid he's a brakeman you all know D G D E7 A He was born in Mississippi away down south and he flagged on the T & D & N & O D G D E7 A D He yodeled to fame on the Boston Main the Wabash and the Teepee D G D E7 A D Fe D G D E7 A On the Lehigh Valley he yodeled awhile then he went to the Nickel D Plate D G D E7 A D Eight D G D E7 A D He yodeled his way to the C & A the Lackawanna and I C G D E7 A He rode a rattler called the Cannonball then he yodeled on the M K & D T ( guitar ) G D E7 A D Now the story goes that Jimmie the Kid has a yodeling mama so sweet G D E7 A They go Cadillacin' every night and they yodel up and down the D street G D E7 A He's rode freight trains from East to West he's fixed himself up D nice. G D E7 A D He's got a beautiful home all of his own it's the yodeler's paradise G D G D E7 Now they've treated him good and they've treated him bad he never A D done any wrong G D E7 A He yodels a yodel that everybody knows is the yodeling brakeman's D song.