Paul Bunyan Uke tab by The New Christy Minstrels

9 Chords used in the song: C, F, Dm, G7, Bb, Am, Fm, G, Cm

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C C    F F            C C
Paul Bunyan, Paul Bunyan,
Dm Dm G7 G7
There ain’t nobody who can
C C Bb Bb Am Am Fm Fm
Hold a candle or an axe handle
C C G G C C
To Paul the lumberman.

C C
Paul Bunyan lived so long ago
G G
That you may wonder how I know
C C
A A lumberjack once told me so
G G C C
Way up in Minnesota.

C C
This earth began to rock one morn
G G
And all the folks knew Paul was born
C C
And ships were wrecked goin’ ‘round the horn
G G C C
In southern Minnesota.

C C
I’ll tell you how he came to be:
G G
The son of a great white oak was he
C C
His father was a redwood tree
G G C C G G C C
From out in California (that’s western Minnesota).

F F C C
Paul Bunyan, Paul Bunyan,
Dm Dm G7 G7
There ain’t nobody who can
C C Bb Bb Am Am Fm Fm
Hold a candle or an axe handle
C C G G C C
To Paul the lumberman.

C C
Paul Bunyan grew so very tall
G G
He could not stand up straight at all
C C
They said, “You’ll have to leave Saint Paul”
G G C C
And maybe Minnesota.

C C
He laughed and the earth shook far and wide
G G
And once they say Paul Bunyan cried
C C
And hundreds drowned-ed in the tide
G G C C
That flooded Minnesota.

C C
So off to the piney woods he went
G G
Where he built a dam with great extent
C C
And with his shirt he pitched a tent
G G C C
That covered Minnesota.

F F C C
Paul Bunyan, Paul Bunyan,
Dm Dm G7 G7
There ain’t nobody who can
C C Bb Bb Am Am Fm Fm
Hold a candle or an axe handle
C C G G C C
To Paul the lumberman.

C C
One day when Paul was ramblin’ ‘round
G G
He dug a river and saw the ground
C C
To float his giant timber down
G G C C
To the Gulf of Minnesota.

C C
Paul Bunyan had a great blue ox;
G G
Its length was a hundred city blocks
C C
And when it walked it stopped the clocks
G G C C
In all of Minnesota.

C C
Paul Bunyan’s ox was quite well-known;
G G
Its weight was a hundred million stone
C C
They called him “Babe” ‘cause he warn’t half-grown
G G C C
And he lived in Minnesota.

F F C C
Paul Bunyan, Paul Bunyan,
Dm Dm G7 G7
There ain’t nobody who can
C C Bb Bb Am Am Fm Fm
Hold a candle or an axe handle
C C G G C C
To Paul the lumberman.

C C
He took Arizona in his hand
G G
And ran his finger through the sand
C C
He made a canyon and called it “Grand”
G G C C
In southwest Minnesota.

C C
To list his great deeds one by one,
G G
If I were to mention all he’s done
C C
In a hundred years I’d-a just begun
G G C C
To talk about Paul Bunyan.

Cm Cm
And when he died, he died so hard
G G
He shook the ground in my backyard
C C
And every minstrel and every bard
G G C C G G C C
Wrote songs about Paul Bunyan (and also Minnesota).

F F C C
Paul Bunyan, Paul Bunyan,
Dm Dm G7 G7
There ain’t nobody who can
C C Bb Bb Am Am Fm Fm
Hold a candle or an axe handle
C C G G C C
To Paul the lumberman.

F F C C
Paul Bunyan, Paul Bunyan,
Dm Dm G7 G7
I’ll tell you if I can
C C Bb Bb Am Am Fm Fm
In all this nation and the whole creation
C C G G C C
He's a giant of a lumberman.


Simplified chorus:
F F C C
Paul Bunyan, Paul Bunyan,
G7 G7
There ain’t nobody who can
C C F F
Hold a candle or an axe handle
C C G G C C
To Paul the lumberman.

Uke tab by , 27 Jun 2021

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