I'm A Roaring Repeater

by American campaign song · posted by WaltP

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−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
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Tab

I’M A ROARING REPEATER
American campaign song
Key: D
Time: 6/8

-5  -7  -7  -7  -7 -6*
My name is Mike Do-lan, 
-5  -7  -7 -7   -7
I’m one of the boys
-7   -8  -8  -8   -8   7
I’m fond of good whis-key 
-5   -8  -8 -8  -8
And plen-ty of noise
-8 -8  -7  -7 -7 -7  -6*
I’m a rare pol-i-ti-cian
  -5    -7  -7 -7 -7
You’ll free-ly ad-mit
-7  7    -8    -7   7 -6*
Of con-science and hon-or
6  -5  -6* 6 -5
I have not a bit
-5    5*  -3 5*  6  -6*
I’m called a re-peat-er,
 7  -6* -6* -6* -6*
But that is my trade
-6*  7    -7   7   -6*  6
I’m done with the pick-axe
-5   6   6   6    6
The shov-el and spade
 6   5* -3 5*   6 -6*
The Dem-o-crat par-ty
7   -6* -6*-6* -6*
De-pends up-on me
-6* 6    6   6  6  -6* 7*
To give them a pres-i-dent
-7   -7   -7  -7
Now don’t you see
-5 -6* -7  -7  -7  -7 -6*
I’m a roar-ing re-peat-er
-5 -7 -7  -7   -7
Of Dem-o-crat fame
-7   -8   -8  -8   -8
And just from the state
 7   -5  -8  -8 -8 -8
Peni-ten-tia-ry I came
-8   -7  -7 -7 -7  -6*
For when the e-lec-tion
-5 -7  -7 -7  -7
Is com-ing a-bout
-7   7 -8  -7     7  -6* 6
The Dem-o-crat’s gov-ern-or
-5  -6*  6  -5
Par-dons me out.

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