Closer To The Bone chords by
Louis Prima

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Key: Bb major

Verse 1

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Closest to the bone

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Sweeter is the meat

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Last slice of Virginia ham

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Is the best that you can eat

Verse 2

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Don't talk about my baby

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She's slender but she's sweet

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Closest to the bone

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And sweeter is the meat

Verse 3

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Now she'd make a good thermometer

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Adim

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If she drank a glass of wine

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She's built just like a garter snake

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She climbs up like a vine

Verse 4

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My friends tell me I'm a fool

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To love a girl like that

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Here's the reason I like 'em slim

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Instead of big and fat

Verse 5

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'Cause closest to the bone

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Sweeter is the meat

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Last slice of Virginia ham

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Is the best that you can eat

Verse 6
Eb Eb 6
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Now don't talk about my baby
Ab Ab 4
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She's slender but she's sweet
Bb Bb 
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Umm, closest to the bone
And sweeter is the meat
Eb Eb 6
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Let's go

Verse 7
Eb Eb 6
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F F 
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Yeah, let's go, yeah,
Bb Bb 
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Eb Eb 6
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Bb Bb 
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Eb Eb 6
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Ab Ab 4
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boy
Bb Bb 
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Attaboy
One more, one more
Eb Eb 6
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One more, one more
Adim Adim 
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Gm Gm 3
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F F 
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Adim Adim 
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Yeah,  boy
F F 
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In the moonlight Yeah,

Verse 8

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closest to

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the bone, yeah

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Ahh, look out now

Interlude 1
F F 
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Bb Bb 
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Eb Eb 6
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Bb Bb 
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Eb Eb 6
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Bb Bb 
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Eb Eb 6
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Ab Ab 4
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Eb Eb 6
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Ab Ab 4
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Bb Bb 
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Eb Eb 6
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F F 
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Bb Bb 
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Eb Eb 6
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Bb Bb 
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Eb Eb 6
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Ab Ab 4
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Eb Eb 6
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Ab Ab 4
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Bb Bb 
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Eb Eb 6
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Bb Bb 
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Eb Eb 6
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Now she'd make a first class

Verse 9

fountain pen

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If she only knew how to write

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Her figure's like a piece of string

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Umm, she rolls up every night

Verse 10
Eb Eb 6
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Everybody thinks that I'm a nut
Ab Ab 4
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To love this lovely worm
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Boy there's one reason
I like 'em slim
Eb Eb 6
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Instead of round and firm

Verse 11

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'Cause closest to the bone

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Sweeter is the meat

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Last slice of Virginia ham

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Is the best that you can eat

Verse 12
Eb Eb 6
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Now don'cha talk about my baby
Ab Ab 4
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Bb Bb 
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She's slender but she's sweet, umm
Closest to the bone
Umm, sweet, I got another one now
Eb Eb 6
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Listen here

Verse 13

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Umm, she'd make a fine piccolo

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If she only stayed on key

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Boy, she's shaped like a rubber band

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And she loves to snap at me

Verse 14
Eb Eb 6
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Everybody thinks I'm insane
Ab Ab 4
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To  overlook her faults
Bb Bb 
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But here's the reason
I like 'em skinny
Eb Eb 6
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Instead of full of schmaltz

Verse 15

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'Cause closest to the bone

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Sweeter is the meat

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Last slice of Virginia ham

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Is the best that you can eat

Verse 16
Eb Eb 6
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Don't talk about my baby
Ab Ab 4
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She's slender but she's sweet
And it's closest to the bone
Eb Eb 6
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And sweeter is the meat
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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsBb Eb F Ab Adim...

Bb
Eb
F
Ab
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Capo: 3

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Chords

Bb
Eb
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Adim
Gm
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