[Introduction]

          

[Verse 1]

            
Tell me what d

              
id the blackbi

             
rd   say to th

  
e crow?
             
  Dry your eye

           
s,     don't y

        
ou cry,   ain'

t gonna rain n

o more
            
Man on the lev

             
ee,   dry whea

         
t in the field
             
  Pretty soon,

           
     hear the 

     
tune   of the 

threshing whee

l

    

[Verse 2]

            
Tell me what d

              
id the moonlig

             
ht   ask the w

      
illow tree?
             
  Tell me who 

           
    is more bl

    
ue,   is it yo

u or me?
            
  We've been t

             
ogether   sinc

              
e I don't know

 
 when
             
  The best par

           
t's     where 

           
one starts   a

nd the other e

nds

          

[Chorus]

            
  You and me, 

             
always gonna b

  
e howdy howdy
            
  You and me, 

             
always walk th

   
at lonesome va

lley
            
  You and me, 

             
always gonna b

  
e howdy howdy
                           

[Verse 3]

            
Tell me what d

              
id the riddle 

            
  say to the s


ong
             
  The Devil he

           
's     blowing

          
 Reveille   an

d we ain't got

 long
            
  Let's play T

             
he Spider   Bi

            
t the Baby, oh
            
  Last time,  

/            
   last rhyme,

 
   one more fo

r the road

           
    One more f

              
or the road

[Chorus]

            
  You and me, 

             
always gonna b

  
e howdy howdy
            
  You and me, 

             
always walk th

   
at lonesome va

lley