{"id":336,"date":"2021-05-10T03:16:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T03:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=336"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:18:50","slug":"goodnight-irene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/goodnight-irene\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodnight Irene – END"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

trio https:\/\/youtu.be\/-eilTzVzmDs<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

jim plaster https:\/\/youtu.be\/hszfb1me3ck<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a> – – –\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0– – – <\/a><\/p>\n

BILL DOES THIS IN KEY OF G – – [ G – C – D ]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[C G C F G C ]
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS } – – – – [C] Irene good [G] ni – i – ight.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Irene good [C] night. Goodnight Irene, good\u00a0 <\/strong>[F] night Irene I’ll [G] see you in my [C] dreams<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Last [C] Saturday night I got [G] married. Me and my wife settled [C] down. Now me and my wife have [F] parted. Think I’ll [G] take a little walk down [C] town. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS } – – – –<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[C] Sometimes I live in the [G] country. Sometimes I live in [C] town. Sometimes I get a strange [F] notion <\/strong>To [G] go to Cahoots and have a [C] drink . . . .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>To jump into the river and drown<\/span><\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS } – – – –<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

VIOLIN HERE SAME CHORDS AS VERSE<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS } – – – –<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Quit your [C] ramblin’ stop your [G] gamblin’. Quit stayin’ out late at [C] night. Stay home with your wife and [F] family. Sit [G] down by the fireside [C] bright \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS } – – – –<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The [C] music for now is [G] over,\u00a0 we’ll be back, we won’t go [C] far.
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong>With [C] Louis, and Dottie and [F]all the rest.\u00a0 When [G]we return to the bar.
\n\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong>When [C] Plaza Poets come [F]back again,\u00a0 and [G]we return to the bar.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS } – – – –<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

trio https:\/\/youtu.be\/-eilTzVzmDs jim plaster https:\/\/youtu.be\/hszfb1me3ck – – –\u00a0\u00a0– – – BILL DOES THIS IN KEY OF G – – [ G – C – D ] [C G C F G C ] { CHORUS } – – – – [C] Irene good [G] ni – i – ight.\u00a0\u00a0 Irene … CLICK TO VIEW SONGGoodnight Irene – END<\/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":[24,133,126,265,13,116,117,123,115,74,62,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-songlist-tenor","category-live-tenor","category-end-songs","category-uke-juke","category-violin-parts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","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=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29833,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/29833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}