Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Frankly, I confess.
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I'm as worried as I can be.
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For it seems my memory's ailing,
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Though I can retain
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any old refrain,
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lyrics leave me flat somehow
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Like a song that I'm perplexed by,
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vexed by now
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Just a little tune I heard in a show,
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Now how does it go?
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Tum -tah -dum -tah -dum,
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that's all I can hum.
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I never can think of the words.
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It has a catchy little strain,
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keeps haunting me,
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and goes through my brain.
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Now wait, let me see.
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Vo -de -o -do -do, that's all I know.
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I never can think of the words.
It's driving me mad.
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I can't think of a line.
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Let's see, what is it about a moon
or something in June?
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Oh dear, how absurd,
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I can't think of a single word.
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Wait a minute, wait a Teddy, I recall.
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I knew it would come.
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Damn it all, now isn't that dumb.
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Oh hell, I give it up,
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cause I never can think of the words
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I had some young Frenchman I met
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now what was it he said, I forget
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Je l 'ai, je l 'ou, je...
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I never can think of the words
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Then he took me out to dine
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I can't think of the name,
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but it was in the Rue de la Paix.
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An d we had,
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I never can think of the words.
just to have a little talk.
where it was we went.
and when we got to where it was dark,
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and he whispered in my ear,
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Of course, I didn't get what he said,
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but what he meant, I saw.
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And did I give that Frenchman
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Then he said something about bully -foo,
whatever he bullied for, he
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Cause I never could think of a verse.
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