The First Whippoorwill

Source Recording Artist: Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys

Album: Single (Christmas Time's A-Coming) (1951)

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Song Details

Title: The First Whippoorwill

Songwriter(s):

Bill Monroe

First Release: Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys (1951)

Themes: Animals, Lost Love, Death and Mourning, Seasons

Source Recording Details

Key: Ab

Time Signature: Boom-Chuck

Tempo (BPM): 105

Track Length: 2:54

Musicians:

Lead Singer:

Other Singer:

Guitar:

Mandolin:

Banjo:

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The First Whippoorwill

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Springtime is near my darlin’
5 1
You say that you are goin’ away
My heart will be with you my darlin’
5 1
And I’m countin’ now the days

4 1
I know that soon I’ll have to travel
5 1
I know I’m over the hill
4 1
I feel so all alone my darlin’ said she’d be gone
5 1
When I heard the first whippoorwill

The flowers are bloomin’ little darlin’
With the buddin’ of the trees
I hear the night birds a cryin’
I know that they are warnin’ me

Our love was planted little darlin’
Just like the farmer plants his grain
But there will never be a harvest
On the hills the whippoorwills now sing

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