—Bill Monroe

You tell me that you're discontented
You say that I'm always to blame
But after you left me alone dear
I've been blue but I won't be the same

Chorus:
You live in a world all your own
A world that I wished we could share
But I guess it's too late 'cause you're leavin'
I've been blue for I know you don't care

I thought that you always will love me
Like you did when we both made our vows
But now you are breaking my heart dear
I've been blue but I'll get by somehow

Someday you'll regret your mistake dear
Just as sure as sun's in the sky
You ask me to try and forgive you
When you leave you can call it goodbye

Verse

I	IV	I	V
I	IV	I-V	I

Chorus

IV	I	I	V
I	IV	I-V	I

 

—Bill Monroe

Verse A:
The wedding bells chimed for somebody else
I wish they were ringing for me
And though I was hopin' someday you'd be mine
I guess that it never can be

Chorus:
Wishing wishing never again to be lonely
Waiting praying you know that I love you only so

Verse B:
When you are laughing with somebody else
You know I'll be cryin' for you
I may be smilin' to cover my tears
While waltzing with somebody new
And wishing that someone was you

Verse A:
I'm waltzing with somebody else in my arms
But you're still the one in my heart
I'm always dreamin' of our used to be
Wishing we had a new start

Chorus

Verse B:
I keep on wishing and hoping you'll find
That I am the right one for you
I may be waltzing with somebody else
But darlin' I'll always be true

'Til I'm wishing and waltzing with you

Verse A

I	V	V	I
I	V	V	I-I7

Chorus

IV	I	V	I
IV	I	II	V

Verse B

I	V	V	I
I	V	V	III
V	I

 

—Bill Monroe

I'm all alone tonight dear
And I'm so broken hearted
With head bowed low I sit and cry
That night so sad and lonely
I lost my one and only
Why did you ever say goodbye

Chorus:
Though you have done me wrong
But memory still lingers on
Inside this trusting heart of mine
I'll never love again
Since you said this is the end
Oh why did you ever say goodbye

I gave you all my love
You promised you'd be true
And I believed you at the time
It broke my heart my darlin'
To hear you say we've parted
Sweetheart why did you change your mind

Some day you'll be so blue
You'll think of the one who loves you
Tears will fall from your blue eyes
No one will be around
To catch them as they fall down
Oh why did you ever say goodbye

Verse

I	IV	I	V
I	IV	I-V	I

Chorus

IV	I	I	V
I	IV	I-V	I

 

—Bill Monroe

I left the one that I love in the mountains
And all the love we shared
But each night as she kneels by her bedside
I know she calls my name in her prayer

Chorus:
When the moon shines on the Blue Ridge mountains
And it seems I can hear my sweetheart call
How I long to be near my darling
When the golden leaves begin to fall

She knows I'll return to the mountains
And will bring to her a wedding ring
It will be placed upon her finger
Happiness to us both it will bring

Winter time is so cold in the mountains
The ground will soon be covered white with snow
How I long to keep the home fires burning
For I know my darling needs me so

3/4
Verse

I	IV	I	V
I	IV	I-V	I

Chorus

IV	I	I	V
IV	I	I-V	I

 

—Bill Monroe

Chorus:
Yippee ti yi yay, yippee ti yi yo
Down the Sunset Trail
I'm bound to go

Across the plains and the desert
Where the wild winds wail
Someone waits for me
On the Sunset Trail

From the east I will travel
to the west
Lookin' for the one
that I love best

I'll settle back
and then we are ridin'
and I won't stop
Until I'm by her side

Repeat Verse 1 & Chorus

Chorus & Verse:

|: I

I

V

I :|

 

—Bill Monroe

I don't know, I don't know where I'll go or what I'll do
It makes no difference what I do without you
Oh I love you my darling but I'll try and let you be
Goodbye, it's the last you'll hear of me

Chorus:
Well I found a bluebird high on a mountain side
And the little bird would sing its little song
So I'll sigh, I'll cry, I'll even want to die
For the one I love is gone

3/4
Verse

Im	IVm	Im	Im
Im	IVm	V	V7
Im	IVm	Im	Im
IVm	V7	Im	Im

Verse

IV	IVm	Im	Im
IVm	VII	III	V7
Im	Im	IVm	Im
Im	V	Im	Im

 

—Bill Monroe

Springtime is near my darling
You say that you are going away
My heart will be with you my darling
And I'm counting now the days

Chorus:
I know that soon I'll have to travel
I know I'm over the hill
I feel so all alone my darling said she'd be gone
When I heard that first whippoorwill

The flowers are blooming little darling
With the budding of the trees
I hear the night birds a crying
I know that they are warning me

Our love was planted little darling
Just like the farmer plants his grain
But there will never be a harvest
On the hills the whippoorwill now sings

Verse

I	I	I-V	I
I	I	I-V	I

Chorus

IV	I	I	I
IV	I	I-V	I

 

—Bill Monroe

You went away to leave me here
To find somebody new
You're happy now with your new love
And I'm alone and blue

Chorus:
Shadows a creepin' around my door
The sun will soon go down
The nightbirds are cryin' away on the mountain
I'm the bluest man in town

You took away the love we knew
You wrecked our happy home
You left me with a broken heart
So blue and all alone

3/4
Verse and Chorus:

I	I	IV-V	I
I	I	I	I