When Jimmie Rodgers Said Goodbye Lyrics - Hank Snow

There's an old guitar that's lonely for its master's gone away 

Now he's singing to the angels way up in heaven today 

He left a blue song for the brakemen and to the kids a lullaby 

To all sweethearts he left a love song when Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye 

He left a yodel for the cowboy they'll sing it now with tear dimmed eyes 

And he left every prairie lonely when Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye 

[ fiddle - steel ] 

They'll miss him down in Alabama across the world you can hear them sigh 

Mississippi lost their blue yodeler when Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye 

Although the freigh trains keep on running he caught a fast one on the fly 

But he left his guitar behind him when Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye