Cumberland Ridgerunners - "No Place To Pillow My Head"

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Greg: Attached in tab format is my arrangement of a song written by Doc Hopkins. Doc
Hopkins performed with the hillbilly group the Cumberland Ridgerunners on WJJD and the
WLS National Barn Dance in Chicago, Illinois from early 1930 to mid to late 1950.

No Place To Pillow My Head BY: DOC HOPKINS
Arrangement By: Bill Taylor

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Once I was hap- py with heart free from

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care had a Dad- dy and Mam- ma so

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sweet__________ Dolls and a

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dog- gie and play- things so dear, And

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stock- ings and shoes on my feet_________

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But now through this world I must

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wan- der a- lone Beg- ing for

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pen- nies and bread_______ For

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I have no Dad- dy no Mam- ma nor

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home. No place to pil- low my

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head_______ No home________

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no home_______ No place to pil- low my

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head_______ The day seems so

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sad and the night is so long since

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Dad- dy and Mam- ma are dead

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