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You’d Better Get Right

Source Recording: The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys (1955)

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Key C Time 4/4

Chorus × 2

C / /C /

F / /F /

C / /C /

G / /G /

C / /C /

F / /F /

C / G /

C / /C /

Verse × 2

Song Details

Songwriter

Bill Monroe

First Release

The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys (1955)

Further reading

Secondhand Songs

Genres

Traditional Bluegrass

Themes

Lost Love Infidelity

Jam Popularity

Source Recording

Artist

The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys

Album

Single: So Blue (1955) Bluegrass Discography

Key C Time Boom-Chuck Tempo 140 BPM Length 2:23

Musicians

Carter Stanley — Lead Vocals, Guitar
Jim Williams — Mandolin
Ralph Stanley — Backup Vocals, Banjo
Joe Meadows — Fiddle
Bill Lowe — Backup Vocals, Bass

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