Billy Bean chords by The Limeliters

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Verse 1
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Billy Bean, ha rum ba ba bum
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Citizen Billy Bean,
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C 
D 
he heard the rumble of a silent drum
He heard the muffled snare,
ha rum ba doo, ha rum ba doo
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D 
Drumming the message in his head
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No one loves his country,
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A 
D 
Billy Bean, the way you do
Harum -pa -doo, harum -pa -doo,
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A 
D 
harum, ba -ba -ba -boom
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Billy Bean in 76, 1776
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Whispered to young George Washington
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D 
That atheist fellow from Monticello
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D 
Is filling you full of impractical dreams
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D 
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He's leading you up the garden path
Bm 
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A 
With his idealistic schemes
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Billy Bean, Haram -bam -bam -bam
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Citizen Billy Bean,
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C 
D 
he heard the rumble of a silent drum
He heard the muffled stare,
Haram -pa -too, Haram -pa -too
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D 
Drumming the message in his head
G 
No one loves his country,
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A 
D 
Billy Bean, the way you do
Harumpa -doo, harumpa -doo,
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A 
D 
haroom, ba -ba -ba -boom
Billy Bean in sixty -one,
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eighteen -sixty -one
Whispered, oh, Mr. President,
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I'm sure you're the dupe
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Of a foreign group of unprin
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cipled villains
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betraying our past
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D 
F# 
Bm 
You know where I stand on freedom,
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A 
E 
A 
But why must we move so fast?
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Billy Bean, a -rum, ba -ba -bum
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Citizen Billy Bean,
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C 
D 
he heard the rumble of a silent drum
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D 
Billy Bean in 65, 1965
Got off a note to LBJ,
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I view with suspicion your
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sense of mission
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You're leading our country
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to so cialized hell
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F# 
Bm 
Us patriots all would fly these shores,
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A 
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if we weren't doing so well. Billy Beane,
ha rum ba ba bum,
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Citizen Billy Beane,
Eb 
C# 
D 
he heard the rumble of a silent drum.
C 
Bb 
He heard the muffled snare,
Eb 
ha rum ba tu, ha rum ba tu,
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Eb 
drumming a message in his head.
Ab 
No one loves his country,
Eb 
Bb 
Eb 
Billy Bean, the way you do
Db 
Harumpa to, harumpa to, haroom,
Eb 
ba ba ba boom
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Harumpa to, harumpa to, haroom,
Eb 
ba ba ba boom
Harumpa to, harumpa to,
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haroom, ba ba ba boom