Key: Eb major•
Verse 1
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Please folks,
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Attention please!
I can deal with the trouble, friends,
This very hand
Please observe me if you will
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I'm Professor Harold Hill
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And I'm here to organize a River
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City's boys' band
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Oh think, my friends, how could any pool table ever
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hope to compete with a gold trombone?
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Rah rah, rah da da dat da,
rah, rah
Remember, my friends, what
a handful of trumpet players
Did to the famous,
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fabled walls of Jericho
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Well, a band'll do it, my
friends
Oh yes, I said a boys' band, do
ya hear me?
I said River City's gotta have a boys' band, and
While Professor Harold
Hill's on hand
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River City's gonna have
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Johnny, Willy, Teddy, Fred
And you'll see the glitter of
crashing cymbals
And you'll hear the thunder
of rolling drums
to the electric thrill I once enjoyed
the great Creator
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W.C. Handy, and John Philip Sousa
Verse 2
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led the
big parade
With a hundred and ten
They were followed by rows and
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The cream of ev'ry famous band
Verse 3
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six trombones caught
the morning sun
With a hundred and ten cornets right behind
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reeds springing up like weeds
Verse 4
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There were copper bottom tympani
Thundering, thundering,
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all along the way
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Each bassoon having his big fat say
Thundering, thundering,
louder than before
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trumpeters who'd improvise
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A full octave higher than the score
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Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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counterpoint
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While a hundred and ten cornets
To the rhythm of "Harch!
Harch! Harch!"
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And they're marching still right today!
Outro 1
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C#
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG Ab Eb Db F...
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