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Cotton Jenny

Anne Murray

RockMedium for beginners4 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

C×
F
G7
D7××

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              C                              F                       C 
There's a house on a hill by a worn down weathered old mill 
 
              G7 
In the valley be-low where the river winds 
  
                             C 
There's no such thing as bad times 
 
                             F                  C 
And a soft southern flame oh Cotton Jenny's her name 
 
             G7 
She wakes me up when the sun goes down  
 
                          C 
And the wheels of love go round 
 
  
                  F              C 
Wheels of love go round  love go roun-d 
 
        D7              G7 
Love go round  a joyful soun-d 
 
        C               F               G7 
I ain't got a penny for Cotton Jenny to spend but then 
 
              C 
The wheels go roun-d 
 
  
                              F                  C 
When the new day be-gins I go down to the cotton gin 
 
              G7 
And I make my time worthwhile to them  
 
                       C 
Then I climb back up a-gain 
 
                             F                C 
And she waits by the door oh Cotton Jenny I'm sore 
 
            G7 
She rubs my feet while the sun goes down  
 
                          C 
And the wheels of love go round 
 
  
                                   F                C 
In the hot sickly south  when they say well shut my mouth 
 
               G7 
I can never be free from the cotton grind  
 
                        C 
But I know I got what's mine 
 
                          F                  C 
A soft southern flame  oh Cotton Jenny's her name 
 
             G7 
She wakes me up when the sun goes down  
  
                          C 
And the wheels of love go round 
          
 

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Chord set

C · F · G7 · D7

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.