title: Swingin Shepherd Blueskey: Jazzharp type: Chromaticgenre: Bbskill: AnyWords added by Rhoda Roberts & Kenny Jacobs.Recorded by many of music’s big names,first titled as Blues a la CanadianeRenamed and recorded as Swingin’Shepherd Bluesby Moe Koffman 1957. Later with words, sung by Ella Fitzgeraldand in more recent times by Natalie Cole hear and see them onyoutube.com Moderate swingKey Bb, tabbed for chromatic Harmonica in C 6< 7 -7< -9 -9 -7< 6< 7 -7<1. A – long a //:moun-tain pass there is a/2. And down the//:moun-tain pass there lives a/-9 -9 -7< 6< 7 -7<Patch of grass where--- the/Pret- ty lass who’s wait-in/-9 -9 -7< 6< 7 6< 7<~~Swing-in shep-herd plays his tune/For the moon to shine a-bove, /~~ -7< -9< -7< -10< -9< -9< -7<-- his/sheep nev- er stray,- Danc-in’/-- she/dress-es with care,- Braid-in/-10< -9< 9< -7< 6< -5<All day till they see the/Her hair for her one and/-5-3< -5-3< -5< 6 -6~~~~ 7 -7< -8< -7Pale—-and—- yel- low moon/-- and-- then heOn ly- swing-in’ love/-- and she knows he’ll9< 9< -7< 6< 5< 6<Leads his flock and home-ward/Nev-—er roam be-cause she /9< 9< -7< 6< 5< 6< -7< 7< 7< 7 -6<They all rock to – the/tune of the swing-in’/Waits at home for- the/tune of the swing-in’/6< 5< -5 -3< ~~~~Shep---herd blues--//Shep---herd blues--//Chorus-5 -6 -7< -6Come home /shep-herd, /-5 -6 -7< -6 7<play those haunting/trills/7< 7 8< -7< -5 6 -7< -6Come home /shep-herd, /let it ech-o/7< 7 -6~~~ 7 -10 -9Through the hills,- The/swing-in’/-10~~ -9 -7< -7< 7 -7<~~~~~~~shep--- herd---- /blues / ://