Look Over Yonders Wall

(a.k.a. "Look On Yonders Wall")

Words & Music:

Marshall Sehorn & Elmore James

 

This is a basic blues number.  I have marked where the I, IV & V chords go.  Pick a key and go!  The Homespun Tapes DVD by Roy Rogers (bluesman, not cowboy singer) has a great lesson on this! In addition, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band version is fully transcribed in the May-June 2009 issue of Guitar Edge.

 

I                          IV                      I

Look over yonders wall and hand me down my walking cane.

IV                                                 I

Look over yonders wall and hand me down my walking cane.

V                           IV               I   [turnaround of choice]

Well, I got myself a woman, yonder come your man.

 

Look over yonders wall and hand me down my walking cane.

Look over yonders wall and hand me down my walking cane.

Well, I got myself a woman, yonder come your man.

 

I [stop chorus]

Your man went to the wall, I know that he was rough (tough).

I don't know how many men he killed, I know he killed enough.

IV                                                 I

Look over yonders wall and hand me down my walking cane.

V                           IV               I   [turnaround of choice]

Well, I got myself a woman, yonder come your man.

 

I'm in love with you pretty, baby, you don't treat me right,

You take all my money and walk the streets at night.

Look over yonders wall, ah, hand me down my walking cane.

Well, I got myself a woman, yonder come your man.

 

Look over yonders wall and hand me down my walking cane.

Well, I got myself a woman, yonder come your man.

 




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