KENTUCKY BABE

(1896)

Music by ADAM GEIBEL

Words by RICHARD HENRY BUCK

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Verse

Tenor
Lead

Skeet-ers are

Bari
Bass

a - hum-min' on the

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Babe!
Babe, Ken-tuck - y Babe!

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sleep,

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Ken-tuck - y

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sleep

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Ken-tuck - y

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a - com - in'

to this

lit - tle child of mine,

hon - ey-suck - le vine,

Sand-man is

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Arrangement by KIRK ROOSE, rev. 11/2007

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Babe!

Babe, Ken-tuck - y Babe!

Sil - v'ry moon is shin - in'

in the

Original melody simplified. Original dialect lyrics modified.

2009 by Kirk Roose
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Kentucky Babe

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heav-ens up

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a - bove.

Bob - o - link

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b

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sleep.

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fly

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fly a-way,

way,

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fly a-way,

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old Ken-tuck - y,

Fly

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a - way Ken - tuck - y Babe,

lit - tle

la - dy love,

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fly

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n

a - way to rest,

lit - tle head

fly

fly

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a - way,

way,

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lay your sleep - y

close your eyes

Chorus

for his

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Babe of

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b
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pin - in'

You are might - y luck - y

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is

a - way,

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..

fly

in

a -

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on your moth-er's breast.