{"id":1030,"date":"2021-05-10T05:50:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T05:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:48:14","slug":"tom-dooley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/tom-dooley\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Dooley   &#8211; CG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robertandrews.net\/songpics\/T-V\/tom-dooley.jpg\"> SHEET MUSIC\u00a0 <\/a>is in key of G<\/p>\n<pre><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S3zdE8bliGI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/robertandrews.net\/images\/youtube.png\" width=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Throughout history there have been many songs<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Written about the eternal triangle<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This next one tells the story of a Mr. Grayson,<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A beautiful woman, and a condemned man named Tom Dooley<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">When the sun rises tomorrow, Tom Dooley must hang.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } - - - - - <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[C] Hang down your head,<\/strong><strong>Tom Dooley.  Hang down your head and [G7] cry.   Hang down your head,<\/strong><strong> Tom Dooley.   <\/strong><strong>Poor boy, you're bound to [C] die<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<strong>[C] I met her on the mountain,  there I took her [G7] life.   Met her on the mountain,  stabbed her with my [C] knife<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } - - - - -<\/span> <\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>[C] This time tomorrow,  reckon where I'll [G7] be . . . <\/strong><strong>Hadn't-a been for Grayson,  I'd-a been down in [C] Tennessee\r\n<\/strong>\r\n<strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } - - - - - [C] Hang down your head,Tom Dooley. Hang down your head and [G7] cry. Hang down your head, Tom Dooley. Poor boy, you're bound to [C] die<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n[C] This time tomorrow,   reckon where I'll [G7] be . . . <\/strong><strong>Down in some lonesome valley hangin' from a white oak [C] tree<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>{ CHORUS } - - - - - <\/strong>\r\n<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } - - - - -<\/span> <\/strong>\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHEET MUSIC\u00a0 is in key of G Throughout history there have been many songs Written about the eternal triangle This next one tells the story of a Mr. Grayson, A beautiful woman, and a condemned man named Tom Dooley When the sun rises tomorrow, Tom Dooley must hang. { CHORUS &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/tom-dooley\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tom Dooley   &#8211; CG<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,120,133,126,13,64,116,117,123,115,131,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-irish-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-songlist-tenor","category-live-tenor","category-power-outage","category-songpics-sheetmusic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}