Dad's Song chords by Paddy Roberts

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Verse 1
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You know, it's a curious thing
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how humor, particularly in song,
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seems to vary so much
from one generation to another
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because I can remember when I was quite a small boy,
my father used to sing me
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these old Victorian music hall songs
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and there's one in particular
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that I'm sure was written be fore 1890
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that I'd like to sing you now. Actually, I can't
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remember the whole of it
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because it was a very long
time ago
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and in order to stretch it out a little bit,
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I've written a chorus to it myself.
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And to enable you to distinguish
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between my bit and the original,
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I'd like to play you the chorus first.
Pi -da -da -da -da -da,
pi -da -da -da -da -da,
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pi -da -da -da -da -da
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Pi -da -da -da -da -da,
pi -da -da -da -da -da,
pi -da -da -da -da -da
That's my bit.
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And here's the song.
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I know a man that has a lot of trouble with
his feet
They often give him pain
and make him sigh
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He came to me the other day
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and asked me what was good
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And he said to me, now tell me what to try
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I said to him, now tell
me what you've tried
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He said, I've tried a dozen things or more
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I  said, you're talking bush,
have you ever tried a wash?
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Said he, I never thought of that be fore
Pitter -ditter -da -da,
pitter -ditter -da -da,
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pitter -ditter -da -da
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Some people when in
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trouble they go clean
bang off their nuts before the
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beak they get into a stew
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suppose you do a murder
and they put you into quad
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just listen and I'll tell you what to do
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suppose you get a sentence  very hard
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and if it's 14 years
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don't rave and shout
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don't you have any fears
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when you've done seven years,
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just do seven more
and then come out of it.
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-da -da -da -da, da -da -da -da -da -da,
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da -da -da -da -da -da,
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da -da -da -da -da -da,
da -da -da -da -da -da,
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da -da -da -da -da -da.
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I  think my chorus is the best
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part, actually.
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We've a lodger in our house
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who always brags from morn till night.
He's a Yankee and the yarns he tells to me.
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He says the things  are bigger in
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America than here,
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so I thought I'd get my own back.
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Don't you see? I went and bought
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some lobsters in a shop.
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I put them in his bed, I  do declare.
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When he said what are these,
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I said they're English  fleas.
Have you got a many bigger
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over there?
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-da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da -da