Traditional - Sweet Betsy From Pike guitar chord

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Verse:

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Did you ever hear of

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Sweet Betsy from Pike,

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Who crossed the wide prairies

With her husband, Ike,

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With two yoke of cattle

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And one spotted hog

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A tall Shanghai rooster

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And an old yeller dog?

Chorus:

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Good bye Pike County

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farewell for awhile

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We will come back again

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when we pan out our pile.

The alkali desert

Was burning and bare

And Ike cried in fear,

"We are lost, I declare!

My dear old Pike County,

I'll go back to you."

Said Betsy, "You'll go by yourself,

If you do."

They swam the wide rivers

And crossed the tall peaks

They camped on the prairie

For weeks upon weeks

They fought off the Indians

With musket and ball

And reached California

In spite of it all