Blue Bayou chords
Roy Orbison  1963 (Roy Orbison and Joe Melson) *

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Bayou

[Verse]

             
I feel so bad 

              
I've got a wor

          
ried mind,
       
I'm so lonesom

e all the time

;
              
since I left m

           
y baby behind 

   
on blue bayou

             
Saving nickels

              
, saving dimes

           
,  working til

             
l the sun don'

  
t shine
              
Looking forwar

            
d to happier t

        
imes, on blue 

bayou

[Chorus]

             
I'm going back

              
 some day, com

              
e what may, to

       
 blue bayou
              
Where you slee

              
p all day, and

            
 the catfish p

       
lay, on blue b

ayou
            
All those fish

              
ing boats, wit

              
h their sails 

            
afloat, if I c

          
ould only see
             
That familiar 

              
sunrise, throu

           
gh sleepy eyes

      
, how happy I'

d be

[Verse]

             
Oh, to see my 

           
baby again,
              
and to be with

 
 some of my fr

iends
             
Maybe I'd be h

            
appy then, on 


blue bayou

[Chorus]

             
I'm going back

              
 some day, gon

             
na stay, on bl

     
ue bayou
              
Where the folk

              
s are fine, an

             
d the world is

        
 mine, on blue

 bayou
            
Oh, that girl 

              
of mine, by my

            
 side, the sil

              
ver moon and t

           
he evening tid

e
             
Oh, some sweet

            
 day, gonna ta

           
ke away, this 


hurting inside

[Outro]

            
I'll never be 

             
blue, my dream

            
s come true, o

       
n blue bayou



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