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Me Old Bam-Boo chords by 
The New Christy Minstrels
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Verse 1
C
G
C
G
A gentle man's
C
got a walking stick,
G
a seaman's got a cap,
and the merry men of Robin Hood,
they use the quarterstaff.
C
On the Spanish plains,
inside the caves,
G
they hide their ruddy swords,
but we make do with an old bamboo
C
and every one of us.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
The old bamboo, the old bamboo
D
You'd better never bother
with the old bamboo
G
C
You can have the hat or
the bumbler's shoe
D
But you'd better never bother
G
C
with the old bamboo
A bundling on the beautiful stems
You use a sturdy pole
G
To protect their bare complexions
C
Ladies use a parasol
And it's youthful in the underbrush
G
To have a hefty spear
But what we do with our old bamboo
Makes everybody cheer
C
Yeah!
Five, six, seven, eight
Nine, ten, eleven, twelve
The old bamboo, the old bamboo
D
You'd better never bother
with the old bamboo
G
C
You can have the hat or the bumper shoe
D
But you'd better never bother
G
C
Eb
with the old bamboo
C#
A flyer in an aeroplane
Ab
He steers it with a pick
Eb
On fire in the pits of Whaley,
Ab
C#
lean upon his pick
Now every wheel of an automobile
Ab
revolves around the shaft
But what we do with an old bamboo
C#
makes everybody daft
Ab
Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
C#
seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty
The old bamboo, the old bamboo
Eb
You'd better never bother
with the old bamboo
Ab
C#
You can have the hat or the
bumper shoe
Eb
But you'd better never bother
with the old bamboo
C#
The old bamboo, the old bamboo
Eb
You'd better never bother with me,
Ab
old man Bo
C#
You can have me, Adam,
if I'm pursued
Eb
But you'd better never bother with
Better never bother with
Ab
C#
Never bother with me, old man Bo
Never!
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