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So Long Its Been Good To Know You

by The Weavers

Biography:

The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City.
The Weavers were formed in November 1948 by Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Fred Hellerman.
They sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues, gospel music, children's songs, labor songs, and American ballads, and sold millions of records at the height of their popularity. Their hard-driving string-band style inspired the commercial "folk boom" that followed them in the 1950s and 1960s

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This version of Woody Guthrie's original reached no 3 in the US in 1951.
Capo on 4 for correct key = B

Chorus
G
So long it's been good to know ya
D7
So long it's been good to know ya
G C
So long it's been good to know ya
G D
What a long time since I've been home
G D G
And I've gotta be drifting along

Verse 1
G Am D
I've sung this song but I'll sing it again
G Am D
Of the people I've met and the places I've seen
G C
Of some of the troubles that bothered my mind
G D G
And a lot of good people that I've left behind saying

Chorus
G
So long it's been good to know ya
D7
So long it's been good to know ya
G C
So long it's been good to know ya
G D
What a long time since I've been home
G D G
And I've gotta be drifting along

Verse 2
G Am D
The sweethearts they sat in the dark and they sparked
G Am D
They hugged and they kissed in that dusty old dark
G C
They sighed and they cried and they hugged and they kissed
G D G
But instead of marriage they talked like this honey

Chorus
G
So long it's been good to know ya
D7
So long it's been good to know ya
G C
So long it's been good to know ya
G D
What a long time since I've been home
G D G
And I've gotta be drifting along

Verse 3
G Am D
I went to your family I asked them for you
G Am D
They all said take her oh take her please do
G C
She can't cook or sew and she won't scrub your floor
G D G
So I put on my coat and tiptoed out the door singing

G
So long it's been good to know ya
D7
So long it's been good to know ya
G C
So long it's been good to know ya
G D
What a long time since I've been home
G D G
And I've gotta be drifting along

Verse 4
G Am D
I walked down the street to the grocery store
G Am D
It was crowded with people both rich and both poor
G C
I asked the man how his butter was sold
G D G
He said one pound of butter for two pounds of gold I said

Chorus
G
So long it's been good to know ya
D7
So long it's been good to know ya
G C
So long it's been good to know ya
G D
What a long time since I've been home
G D G
And I've gotta be drifting along

Verse 5
G Am D
My telephone rang and it jumped off the wall
G Am D
That was the preacher making a call
G C
He said we're waiting to tie the knot
G D G
You're getting married believe it or not
G Am D
Well the church it was jammed and the church it was packed
G Am D
The pews were crowded from the front to the back
G C
A thousand friends waited to kiss my new bride
G D G
But I was so anxious I rushed her outside told them

Chorus
G
So long it's been good to know ya
D7
So long it's been good to know ya
G C
So long it's been good to know ya
G D
What a long time since I've been home
G D G
And I've gotta be drifting along