Old Time Family Bluegrass Band Song Lyrics and Chords
Old Time Family Bluegrass Band Song Lyrics and Chords by The Oak Ridge Boys
Old Time Family Bluegrass Band
Recorded by The Oak Ridge Boys
Written by Mike Hufman
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We catch our memories wandering through the past from time to time
As mountain family music fills
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again inside our mind
We
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dream about
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Allegheny hills and
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West Virginian
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land
And an old time family
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bluegrass
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band
Our God fearing mom and daddy raised us young'uns on a song
By the banks where old new river gently
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sways and rolled along
Where
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once upon a
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time there dwelled a
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close knit mountain
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clan
An old time family
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bluegrass
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You
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never heard the like of melo
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dies our family played
The guitar kept the
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rhythm as the
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fiddle sawed
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away
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recall a banjo ringing and a
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singing
mando
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lin
In an old time family
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bluegrass
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Daddy slapped the upright momma strummed the other part
We couldn't read the music we jus
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t played it all by heart
Lord
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hallowed songs just
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flowed across that
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fertile mountain
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land
On the old time family
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bluegrass
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I see us sittin' round the porch on starry summer nights
I remember how the music made my
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world seem good and right
When
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all the folks
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would raise their happy
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voices and join
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in
With the old time family
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bluegrass
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Repeat #3
Yes an old time family
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bluegrass
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Old Time Family Bluegrass Band?
- The song Old Time Family Bluegrass Band was sang by The Oak Ridge Boys.
Who is The Oak Ridge Boys?
- The Oak Ridge Boys is an American country and gospel vocal quartet. The group was founded in the 1940s as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular in southern gospel during the 1950s. Their name was changed to the Oak Ridge Boys in the early 1960s, and they remained a gospel group until the mid-1970s, when they changed their image and concentrated on country music.The lineup which produced their most well-known country and crossover hits (such as "Elvira" (1981), "Bobbie Sue" (1982), and "American Made" (1983) consists of Duane Allen (lead), Joe Bonsall (tenor), William Lee Golden (baritone), and Richard Sterban (bass). Golden and Allen joined the group in the mid-1960s, and Sterban and Bonsall joined in the early 1970s. Aside from an eight-year gap (1987-95) when Golden left the group and was replaced, this lineup has been together since 1973 and continues to tour and record.
