Tonalité : Ab major
Verse 1
G
Once a mockingbird (dig) - he
Am
was overheard (what)
G
Bbdim
C
G
- Singing out a word (I) - to a cattle
heard: (heard)
(Quoth the mockingbird - "dig what
I'm layin' down")
C
Bbdim
G
Bbdim
"All you bovine creatures - dig
Bbaug
D
what I'm layin' down!"
Verse 2
D
G
All you sinners drop everything
Everything
C
Let the melody and the harmony ring
Let it ring
G
Lift arms up to Heaven and sing
Ring- a- ding
D
Sing you sinners
G
woncha sway n' swing
Verse 3
What a thing
G
Start with clappin' y'hands all about
All about
C
Don't be silent - Let the
Lord hear y'shout
Shout it out
G
C
G
And jus' let the music come out
Of yr snout
A
D
Sing you sinners won
G
cha sway n' swing
Check it out
Em
(Dig the drift of what I mean)
Verse 4
Am
In a world where there's no music
B
(Old Scratch)
Em
Satan gets his kicks
Em
(He's up to his tricks)
C
Am
He'll be laughing up and down
Em
the banks
(Hee, hee, hee)
Em
D
Of that river Styx
Verse 5
G
You're so wicked baby,
and you're depraved
You can rave
C
It's apparent that you have misbehaved
To your grave
But if you should
G
wanna be saved
D
Jus' behave
Am
D
G
Bbdim
Take a listen now to the bird...
Verse 6
A
Janis' solo:
D
G
Stop all that chewin' yer cud - and all
C
G
that standin' in the mud there
D
Swing people! Swing every chortle
G
Bbdim
from yer mortal portal
D
G
I dig that everyone believes
C
that all cattle prodigies
Are like a sneeze
G
D
Hard blowin'- missin one lick of blowin'
G
talent to show
B
(If y'sing - y' gotta
Verse 7
Em
swing!)
Verse 8
Am
But remember that the day
B
will come when you
Verse 9
Em
Will be just steak on a plate
Em
(Folks, y'know it's fate)
Am
So dig the music of the swing-
o- sphere -
A
Am
D
(Before your swing arrives too late) Janis' solo,
continued:
G
That's a little too dark
Still, it's true - we've got breath
C
for such a limited time
G
What are ya, stupid,
D
G
ya cows? - you'd think to sing was a crime
Verse 10
G
C
In defense now; hence now; Here's
G
comes Adele McCluck:
C
Cheryl's solo: Mrs. Mockingbird,
Verse 11
I must say you haven't heard
F
The friendly bellowing swing
C
of our friends the cows -
G
As they shed their way from
C
C
Teagarden to Fuller
Instead of spendin' ev'ry
day jus' sneakin' around
F
Adim
To life another lick -
C
These cats work on their cow- tone,
G
so when they get up to blow
C
B
They blow a fatter bone- tone into
C
the ozone
Am
(And furthermore...) Alan's
Verse 12
solo:
You tweety- birds are
D
always singin' away
E
Am
Never givin' up thought of what you say
D
We cows do - shedding
takes up most of our day
G
Em
G
So when we start and settle
C
F
in to play - we can say
Adim
A moo is an array of what
C
we've always known to be
G
F
C
The be st and only way to play
Verse 13
C
G
(What we mean to say is...)
C
Be fore the
Verse 14
band will letcha sing
Am
(Sing with Fletcher Henderson)
C
F
You've got to get y'self to swing
Adim
F
(Like the Bean or Satch)
C
So your horn can blow - a
G
single note or two
C
Of deeper thinking
G
(That's the way to swing)
C
So set your mind upon a tone
F
(When you're shedding
Am
all alone)
F
And you will have a cornerstone
(Like the bass trombone)
C
Blow your horn and take a bow
So that you're swinging
like the cows
Pythagoras would be so proud of us
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