Grandma Teeter‐Totter chords by Hoagy Carmichael

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Verse 1
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Yes siree,
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she was a great gal, Hoagie.
Who was, Cassie?
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Grandma Teeter -Totter.
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Well, what did she do, Cassie?
What did she do?
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Why ain't you here?
Grandma Teeter -Totter
took herself to the fireman's ball.
Grandma Teeter -Totter
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had the best time of all.
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When she danced the polka,
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someone hollered loud and bold,
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Grandma, you ain't ever growin' old
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Grandma teeter -totter
with a rose in her hair
Shouted, boys, play harder,
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I'm a -dancin' on air
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Then she grabbed a preacher
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who said dancin' was a sin
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Spinned him till his coattails
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split the wind
Grandma teeter -totter
danced the length of the floor
Just then, Grandpa entered
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through the crowd at the door.
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He was full of tonic
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from a nursing of his knee.
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Grandma passed him by
with a high, whoopee, whoopee!
Yeah, Grandpa teeter -tottered
with a frown of dismay.
Told that fancy trotter
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she had best hit the hay.
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That's right!
That's when Grandma shouted
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with a twinkle in her eye.
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Come up and see my
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etchings of by -and -by
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Grandma teeter -totter
took to the punch bowl again
She drank up more than she ought to,
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this is what happened then
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Grandma grabbed the fiddle,
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grabbed it from the leader's hand
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Play -doh promised me to beat
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the band
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Grandma teeter -totter
heard them shouting her name
Saw a gray -haired lady
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dancing her plumb to shame
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Picking up her heels so high
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that people stared in awe
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My! What's up, Cassie?
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To my great -grandmother,
my grandma's mother
Grandma teeter -totter's father's
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mother
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Grandma teeter -totter
looked around for a spell
Saw that pole hole in the floor,
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they called the fireman's well
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Next  thing we knew,
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Grandma was a -slidin'
down the pole
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Shoutin' fire, fire, fire in the hole
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Grandma teeter -totter
brought that ball to a close
When that dancin' daughter
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had him drag out the hose
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Now she's crowned mighty,
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but the story's still untold
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Grandma Peter's daughter
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can never grow old
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