{"id":10438,"date":"2022-06-10T22:24:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T22:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=10438"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:09:23","slug":"yellow-ribbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/yellow-ribbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tie a Yellow Ribbon"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Tony Orlando & Dawn<\/a><\/span><\/header>\n
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[Intro] - - - - <\/span>C<\/span>  Em<\/span>  Dm<\/span>  G<\/span>\r\n<\/span> \r\n[Verse] - - - - [C] I'm comin' home, I've done my [Em] time.  Now I've [Gm] got to know what [A7] is and isn't [Dm] mine.  <\/span><\/span>If [Fm] you received my letter tellin' [C] you I'd soon be [Am] free; <\/span><\/span>[D7] Then you'll know just what to do [Fm] if you still want [G7] me.   <\/span><\/span>[Fm] If you still want [G7] me\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS } - - - - <\/span> [C] Tie a yellow ribbon round the [Em] old oak tree.  <\/span><\/span>It's been [Gm] three long years, do you [A] still [A7] want [Dm] me.  <\/span><\/span>If [Fm] I don't see a ribbon round the [C] old [E] oak [Am] tree,   <\/span><\/span>I'll [C] stay on the bus, [C\/G] forget about us,  <\/span><\/span>[Am] Put the blame on [A] me; <\/span><\/span>If [Dm7] I don't see a [Fm] yellow ribbon  [D7] round the [G7] old oak [C] tree [ Am Dm G7 ]<\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse] - - - - <\/span>[C] Bus driver please look for [Em] me,  <\/span><\/span>Cause I [Gm] couldn't bear to [A7] see what I might [Dm] see.  <\/span><\/span>I'm really still in [Fm] prison and my [C] love she holds the [Am] key.  <\/span><\/span>A [D7] simple yellow ribbon's what I [Fm] need to set me [G7] free;  <\/span><\/span>I [Fm] wrote and told her [G7] please.\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS } - - - -  <\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse] (slower, single appregios)  <\/span>Now the [Dm] whole damn bus is [Fm] cheerin' and I [C] can't believe I [A7] see . . . \r\n<\/span><\/span>(normal tempo)  <\/span>A [C] hundred yellow [Dm] ribbons tied [Fm] 'round the [D7] old [G7] oak [C] tree [Em]\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by Tony Orlando & Dawn [Intro] – – – – C Em Dm G [Verse] – – – – [C] I’m comin’ home, I’ve done my [Em] time. Now I’ve [Gm] got to know what [A7] is and isn’t [Dm] mine. If [Fm] you received my letter tellin’ [C] you … CLICK TO VIEW SONGTie a Yellow Ribbon<\/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":[120,133,126,265,116,117,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438","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=10438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30262,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438\/revisions\/30262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}