There's an old guitar that's lonely for its master's gone away   Now he's singing to the angels way up in heaven today   He left a blue song for the brakemen and to the kids 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   And he left every prairie lonely when Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye   [ fiddle - steel ]   They'll miss him down in Alabama across the world you can hear them sigh   Mississippi lost their blue yodeler when Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye   Although the freigh trains keep on running he caught a fast one on the fly   But he left his guitar behind him when Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye