Hank Snow – I Aint Been Anywhere (Guitar)

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[Prelude] | D | D E7 | D | [Introductive Part (adagio)]
D
 I was sittin' at home, just a-listenin' to my radio

                              D7
An' along came a fella, who apparently had been on the go

         G
Well, he started in a-braggin' 'bout ev'rywhere he'd been

          D
And there isn't any place in this whole world he hasn't seen

    A7
You ask me where I've been, an' I'm a-going to tell you, Pard

             D
Why, I ain't even been outside the gate in my backyard..
[Chorus]
D                                                         G
I ain't been anywhere, Joe, I ain't been anywhere, Joe, I didn't want to go, so

  D                              A                A7                        D
I guess I'll never know, Joe, an ol' stick in the mud, Bud, I ain't been anywhere
[Part 1]
D
I ain't seen London, Paris, Washington, Chicago, Bombay, Mandalay, Calgary, Cashmere,

G                                      D
Thailand, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Halifax, Poland, Switzerland, Scotland,

A7                                       D
Liverpool, Dry Gulch, Tombstone, Moscow, Karlsbad, Leningrad, Stalingrad, too bad!
[Chorus]
D                                                         G
I ain't been anywhere, Joe, I ain't been anywhere, Joe, I didn't want to go, so

  D                              A                A7                        D           Eb
I guess I'll never know, Joe, an ol' stick in the mud, Bud, I ain't been anywhere  (doo'ooh)
[Part 2]
Eb
Siam, Amsterdam, Oslo, Rotterdam, Birmingham, Tokyo, Melbourne, Saigon,

Ab                                       Eb
Trinidad, Hong Kong, Florida, Reykjavik, Copenhagen, Berlin, Congo, Key West,

Bb7                                           Eb
Petersburg, Wallisburg, Cherbourg, Luxemburg, Cayoose, Toronto, Cripple Creek, I'm sick!
[Chorus]
Eb                                                        Ab
I ain't been anywhere, Joe, I ain't been anywhere, Joe, I didn't want to go, so

  Eb                             Bb               Bb7                       Eb         E
I guess I'll never know, Joe, an ol' stick in the mud, Bud, I ain't been anywhere  (aa'aah)
[Part 3]
E
Kumquat, Limerick, Inverness, Loch Ness, Swansea, Uganda, Colombo, Gold Coast,

A                                         E
Edinburgh, Singapore, Galveston, Okinawa, Blarney, Killarney, Karachi, Pyongyang,

B7                              E
Warsaw, Rangoon, Goa, Libya, Goose Bay, Labrador, Outer Space, no place!
[Chorus]
E                                                         A7
I ain't been anywhere, Joe, I ain't been anywhere, Joe, I didn't want to go, so

  E                              B                B7                        E          F
I guess I'll never know, Joe, an ol' stick in the mud, Bud, I ain't been anywhere  (aa'aah)
[Part 4]
F
Oviedo, Toledo, Wexford, Frankfurt, Silverton, Norfolk, Alamo, Sevilla,

Bb                                       F
Brighton, Kiowa, Denmark, Dover, Calais, Rio, Lima, Philippines,

C7                                     F
Hebrides, Hawaii, Portland, Cleveland, Leipzig, Laramie, Horsehair, nowhere!
[Chorus]
F                                                         Bb7
I ain't been anywhere, Joe, I ain't been anywhere, Joe, I didn't want to go, so

  F                              C                C7                        F
I guess I'll never know, Joe, an ol' stick in the mud, Bud, I ain't been anywhere
[Outro] N.C. Wait a minute! Horsehair? why, doggone it, that's my hometown, so I guess I must 'a' been there, huh?
                F
I ain't been anywhere!