Funiculi Funicula chords by 
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Key: D major•
Verse 1
D
Bm
D
Some think the world is
made for fun and frolic, and so do
I, and so do
I.
Some think it well to be all melancholic,
A
D
to pine and sigh, to pine and sigh.
But
F#m
C#
I, I love to spend my time
F#
F#m
C#
in singing some joyous song.
F#m
C#
F#m
Some joyous song.
D
A
To set the air with music bravely
ringing is far from wrong.
E
A
Is far from wrong.
Listen, listen, echo sound afar.
D
Listen, listen, echo sound afar.
F#
Bm
F#
Tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la,
Bm
tra -la -la -la.
G
D
Let the sound of our tra -la -la
A
D
-la, tra -la -la -la
Some say it's wrong to set
the beat of dancing
But not so I
A
D
And not so I
Some say that I should
keep from hardly glancing
A
D
Upon the slide
A
D
But not so I
F#m
C#
But, oh, to me the
Maisie dance is charming
F#m
C#
F#m
Di vinely sweet, divinely sweet.
A
E
A
And surely there is nothing as alarming
E
A
In nimble feet, in nimble feet.
Listen, listen, echo sound afar.
D
Listen, listen, echo sound afar.
F#
Bm
Tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la, tra
F#
Bm
-la -la -la, tra -la -la -la.
G
D
Echo sound afar,
Em
A
D
tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la.
For me, too strange that some would
take to sighing and like it well
And like it well
For me, I have not thought it worth the trying,
A
D
so can not tell
So cannot tell
F#m
C#
F#
With laugh and dance and song the day soon passes,
C#
full soon is gone
F#
Full soon is gone
F#m
A
For mirth was made for
joyous lads and lassies
E
A
E
A
To call their own, to call their own
Listen, listen, echo sound afar
D
Listen, listen, echo sound afar
F#
Tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la, tra
Bm
F#
Bm
-la -la -la, tra -la -la -la
G
D
Echo sound afar, tra -la -la
A
D
A
-la, tra -la -la -la
Listen, listen, heckle sound afar.
D
Listen, listen, heckle sound afar.
F#
Tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la,
Bm
tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la.
G
D
A
D
Heckle sound afar, tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la.
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ChordsD Bm A F#m C#...
D
Bm
A
F#m
C#
F#
E
G
Em
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