Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key

Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
Words by Woody Guthrie, Music by Billy Bragg and Jeff Tweedy
Acoustic guitar and vocals cover

Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I lived in a place called Okfuskee
And I had a little girl in a holler tree
I said, little girl, it's plain to see
Ain't nobody that can sing like me[x2]
She said it's hard for me to see
How one little boy got so ugly
Yes my little girly that might be
But there ain't nobody that can sing like me

[Chorus]
Ain't nobody that can sing like me
Way over yonder in the minor key
Way over yonder in the minor key
There ain't nobody that can sing like me
[Verse 2]
We walked down by the Buckeye Creek
To see the frog eat the goggle-eye bee
To hear the west wind whistle to the east
There ain't nobody that can sing like me
Ain't nobody that can sing like me
Oh my little girly will you let me see
Way over yonder where the wind blows free
Nobody can see in our holler tree

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
Her mama cut a switch from a cherry tree
And laid it on the she and me
It stung lots worse than a hive of bees
But there ain't nobody that can sing like me
Ain't nobody that can sing like me
Now I have walked a long long ways
And I still look back to my tanglewood days
I've led lots of girls since then to stray
Saying ain't nobody that can sing like me
Ain't nobody that can sing like me

[Outro]
Way over yonder in the minor key[x2]
Ain't nobody that can sing like me[x2]