Key: C major
Verse 1
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D
Here he comes, rat -a -tat -tum,
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C
Little Buddy Blayne, play your drum.
There's a town that I was born in,
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C
where I spent my childhood days.
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C
There I met Little Buddy
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C
We pretended we were soldiers,
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F
I fought with a broomstick,
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bayonet,
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C
and Little Buddy played his drum.
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C
Little Buddy, play, play your drum.
The years just seemed to fly by,
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C
little Buddy became a man
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C
He went to far off places
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C
He wrote home many letters
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F
He went to London Castle
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G
C
and played before the Queen
She gave my friend a medal
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C
and said, my boy, well done
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I've called my royal subjects
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to hear you play your drum
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F
Back in the USA, I christened you
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C
The son of England, play little buddy, play
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C
Play this drum, I'm marchin' by
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Little buddy play, play your drum
And then one day a message
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came to his mother's door
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Your boy was killed this morning
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This package that we're sending you
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His mother looked inside and,
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there was little Buddy's drum
Sometimes upon the hillside
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at the close of day
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C
You can hear a drummer there
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as he marches on his way
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with the drums he loved to play
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Then the shadows close around him
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D
and the drums fade away
Little by little they, they will drown
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC D G F
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