Key: Gb major
Verse 1
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One dark and stormy night
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Bill Jones was feeling
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Things didn't seem just right
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So he didn't know just what to do
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I said, "Bill, please tell me,
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ain't you satisfied?"
He looked around so pitiful,
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A#m
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then to me he replied
Verse 2
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Keeps on a- rainin',
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look how it's rainin'
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Papa he can't make no time
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Wind keeps blowing,
Verse 3
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In the wintertime,
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when it starts to snow
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You know you pretty mama's
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got to have some dough
Verse 4
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Papa, he can't make no time
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Verse 5
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But I'd rather see it in a
Verse 6
Papa, he can't make no time
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