"When Jimmie Rodgers Said Good-Bye" lyrics

There's an old guitar that's lonely
For its master's gone away
He is singing to the angels
Way up in heaven today
He left a blue song for the brakeman
For the babies, 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
For he left every prairie lonely
When Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye

They'll miss him down in Alabama
In Tennessee, you'll hear them sigh
Mississippi lost their blue yodeler
When Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye
Though the freight trains keep on rolling
He caught a fast one on the fly
But he left his guitar behind him
When Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye
It's twenty years now since God called him
To his home up there on high
But he left me so much to guide me
When Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye