Little Georgia Rose is a Bill Monroe song which tells the story of a beautiful young lady who lived in Georgia. It is really a great bluegrass song if you can forgive the somewhat unenlightened view of adoption portrayed in the lyrics.
Most of the versions that I sampled on line are in a higher key than G usually around B-flat to C. People like to emulate Bill Monroe's fabulous tenor singing voice and style. For example, I like the way he slides up to the pitch on "way dow---wn in the Blue Ridge Mountains." Bill Monroe's version . That to me is a characteristic of Bill's vocal style.
Ricky Skaggs and Travis Tritt also have a great version: Ricky Skaggs and Travis Tritt version .
I believe that at the Tuesday Bluegrass jam at McClafferty's, we play this song in the key of G, which makes it a little easier for most of us.
My Little Georgia Rose
Written and recorded by Bill Monroe
G C G
Now come and listen to my story
D7
A story that I know is true
G C G
About a rose that blooms in Georgia
D7 G
With a hair of gold and a heart so true
C G
Way down in the Blue Ridge Mountains
D7
Way down where the tall pines grow
G C
Lives my sweetheart of the mountains
G D7 G
She's my little Georgia rose
C G
Her mother left her with another
D7
A care free life she had planned
G C G
The baby now is a lady
D7 G
The one her mother could not stand
Repeat #3
C G
We'd often sing those songs together
D7
I watch her do her little part
G C G
She'd smile at me when I would tell her
D7 G
That she was my own sweetheart
Repeat #3
