Hank Snow When Jimmie Rodgers Said Goodbye Lyrics

When Jimmie Rodgers Said Goodbye Lyrics

There's an old guitar that's lonely for its master's gone away

Now he's singing to the angels way up in heaven today

He left a blue song for the brakemen and to the kids a lullaby

To all sweethearts he left a love song when Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye

He left a yodel for the cowboy they'll sing it now with tear dimmed eyes

And he left every prairie lonely when Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye

[ fiddle - steel ]

They'll miss him down in Alabama across the world you can hear them sigh

Mississippi lost their blue yodeler when Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye

Although the freigh trains keep on running he caught a fast one on the fly

But he left his guitar behind him when Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye