fascinating rhythm chords by Cliff Edwards

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Verse 1
Em 
C 
Em 
C 
 (E minor)  (C major)  (E minor)  (C major) 
Em 
 (E minor) ["Rhythm Morning"]
E 
Em 
 (E major)  (E minor) 
C#m 
E 
Em 
E 
Em 
 (C sharp minor)  (E major)  (E minor)  (E major)  (E minor) 
E 
 (E major) There's a little rhythm, rhythm, a rhythm,
Em 
E 
that said it  (E minor) passed  (E major) through my brain.
So darn persistent,
the day isn't distant,
but it will drive me insane.
Comes in the mornin'
without any warnin',
E 
and hangs around me all day.  (E major) 
E 
I'll have to sneak up  (E major) to it,
someday I'll speak up to it,
I hope it listens when I say.
E 
E 
 (E major) Fascinatin'  (E major) rhythm,
you got me on the go,
fascinatin' rhythm, I'm all a -quiver.
E 
Why the mess you're mak (E major) in',
the neighbors wanna know,
E 
why I'm all shaky, just  (E major) like a plebber.
Em 
E 
Fm 
Each  (E minor) morning  (E major) I   (F minor) get up with the sun,
Bb 
 (B flat major) start a -hoppin', never stoppin'
C 
To find  (C major) that night
Fm 
no work has been  (F minor) done
E 
Bb 
E 
I  (E major)  (B flat major) know  (E major) that once
E 
it didn't  (E major) matter,
E 
but now you're  (E major) doing wrong
When you start to patter,
I'm so unhappy
E 
Won't  (E major) you take a day off,
decide to run along
Somewhere far away off
E 
and  (E major) make a snappy
D 
Oh, how I long to be  (D major) the
G 
C 
man I  (G major) used  (C major) to be
E 
Fm 
 (E major) Fascinating  (F minor) rhythm,
Bb 
E 
Fm 
Bb 
Fm 
E 
Bb 
you've got to stop picking on  (B flat major) me.  (E major)  (F minor)  (B flat major)  (F minor)  (E major)  (B flat major) 
E 
Eb 
Bb 
 (E major)  (E flat major)  (B flat major) 
Fm 
E 
Bb 
E 
 (F minor)  (E major)  (B flat major)  (E major) 
Gm 
Bb 
C 
Fm 
 (G minor)  (B flat major)  (C major)  (F minor) 
Eb 
Bb 
Fm 
E 
Fm 
 (E flat major)  (B flat major)  (F minor)  (E major)  (F minor) 
E 
Bb 
E 
Bb 
 (E major)  (B flat major)  (E major)  (B flat major) 
Eb 
E 
Bb 
 (E flat major)  (E major)  (B flat major) 
C 
Fm 
Bb 
Fm 
E 
 (C major)  (F minor)  (B flat major)  (F minor)  (E major) 
Bb 
 (B flat major) 
E 
 (E major) You got me on the go,
Fm 
Fascinating rhythm, I'm all a -quiver.  (F minor) 
Bb 
 (B flat major) The neighbors want to know
why I'm always shaking like a liver.
Bb 
Fm 
Bb 
Each morning I  (B flat major) get  (F minor) up   (B flat major) with the sun,
start a -hopping, never stopping.
Gm 
 (G minor) You'll find that night
C 
Bb 
no  (C major) work has been done.  (B flat major) 
I know that once it didn't matter,
but now you're doing it wrong.
When you start to patter,
I'm so unhappy.
Won't you take a day off?
Bb 
 (B flat major) De  cide to run along
somewhere far away off to make it snappy.
Oh, how I long to be the
man which I used to be.
At the big rhythm,
you've got to start taking on me.