Swingin Shepherd Blues

Swingin’Shepherd Blues.
Words added by Rhoda Roberts & Kenny Jacobs.
Recorded by many of music’s big names,
first titled as Blues a la Canadiane 
Renamed and recorded as Swingin’Shepherd Blues
by Moe Koffman 1957. Later with words, sung by Ella Fitzgerald
and in more recent times by Natalie Cole hear and see them on youtube.com 

Moderate swing
Key Bb, tabbed for chromatic Harmonica in C


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1. A – long  a //:moun-tain pass there is    a/
2. And down the//:moun-tain pass there lives a/

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Patch of grass where---  the/
Pret- ty  lass who’s wait-in/

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Swing-in shep-herd plays his tune/
 For the moon  to  shine a-bove, /

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-- his/sheep nev- er  stray,- Danc-in’/
-- she/dress-es  with care,- Braid-in/

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 All day till they see the/
 Her hair for her  one and/

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Pale—-and—- yel- low moon/-- and--   then  he
 On   ly-  swing-in’ love/-- and she knows he’ll

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Leads his flock and home-ward/
 Nev-—er  roam  be-cause she /

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They all rock to – the/tune of the swing-in’/
Waits at home for- the/tune of the swing-in’/

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Shep---herd blues--//
Shep---herd blues--//

Chorus

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Come home /shep-herd, /

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play those haunting/trills/


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Come home /shep-herd, /let it ech-o/

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Through the hills,- The/swing-in’/

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shep---  herd---- /blues   /  ://

  
Yours Harmusman