Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I received a request for this song from subscriber "Frank" who wished to hear my interpretation and chord progression, referring to a version by "Fishermens Friends". A video of their version included chords and lyrics, but their chords did not match what I was hearing, so I have made up my own chord progression for this video.
I received a request for this song from subscriber "Frank" who wished to hear my interpretation and chord progression, referring to a version by "Fishermens Friends". A video of their version included chords and lyrics, but their chords did not match what I was hearing, so I have made up my own chord progression for this video.

![Guitar: Some Folks Do (Including lyrics and chords)
In Joe Offers collection, this song had only the following footnotes:
Source: Singing Together, Autumn 1974, BBC Publications
Notes:
None supplied in the pamphlet.
However, in a discussion on the song the following was added:
According to Steven Saunders and Deane L. Root, The Music of Stephen C. Foster: A Critical Edition (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, vol. 1, p. 491), this edition (at the Levy Collection) is the earliest known copy.
Title: Fosters Melodies No.29. Some Folks.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Composed by S[tephen] C[ollins] Foster
Publication: New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1 Franklin Square, 1855.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus (and instrumental interlude)
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Some folks like to sigh, Some folks do, some folks do
First Line of Chorus: Long live the Merry merry heart that laughs by night and day
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: Wakelam & Bro.
I have chosen to sing the chorus after each verse, though in Fosters original it was only sung after the first verse, then after the 3rd and 5th verses. Guitar: Some Folks Do (Including lyrics and chords)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w9fkLj8jyI0/mqdefault.jpg)








