Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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Attention please.
I can deal with a troubled friend
this very hand.
Please observe me if you will.
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and I'm here to organize the
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River City Boys Band.
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Brrrr!
how can any pool table ever hope
to compete with a gold trombone?
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Da da da da da da da da da da.
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Remember, my friends,
what a handful of trumpet players did
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to the famous fabled walls of Jericho.
Oh, Billy, a pile of walls come
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a -tumblin' down.
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Oh, a band'll do it, my friends.
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Oh, yes, I said a boys' band.
Do you hear me?
I said, River City's gonna
have a boys' band,
Well, Professor Harold Hill's on hand.
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River City's gonna have a boys' band.
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As sure as the Lord made
little green apples.
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And that band's gonna
be in uniform.
Johnny, Willie, Teddy, Fred.
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and you'll hear the thunder of rolling drums,
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And you'll feel something akin to the electric thrill I once enjoyed,
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when Gilmore, Liberati,
and John Philip Sousa
all came to town
on the very same historic day.
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76 trombones led the big parade
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With 110 cornets close at hand
They were followed by rows and rows
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Of the finest virtuosos
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The cream of every famous band
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76 trombones caught the morning sun
With a hundred and ten
There were more than a
thousand wheezes
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There were horns of every
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There were copperbottom timpani
Thundering,
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thundering all along the way
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Each bassoon having his big fat say
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Thundering thundering louder than before
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or improvise
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a full octave higher than the star
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And a hundred and ten cornets
To the rhythm of hot, hot, hot
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All the kids began to march
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And they're marching still right today
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You
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