Sing You Sinners chords by
The Manhattan Transfer

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Key: Ab major•

Verse 1

G

G

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Once a mockingbird (dig) - he

Am

Am

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was overheard (what)

G

G

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Bbdim

Bbdim

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C

C

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G

G

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- Singing out a word (I) - to a cattle

heard: (heard)

(Quoth the mockingbird - "dig what

I'm layin' down")

C

C

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Bbdim

Bbdim

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G

G

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Bbdim

Bbdim

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"All you bovine creatures - dig

Bbaug

Bbaug

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D

D

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what I'm layin' down!"

Verse 2

D

D

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G

G

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All you sinners drop everything

Everything

C

C

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Let the melody and the harmony ring

Let it ring

G

G

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Lift arms up to Heaven and sing

Ring- a- ding

D

D

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Sing you sinners

G

G

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woncha sway n' swing

Verse 3

What a thing

G

G

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Start with clappin' y'hands all about

All about

C

C

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Don't be silent - Let the

Lord hear y'shout

Shout it out

G

G

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C

C

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G

G

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And jus' let the music come out

Of yr snout

A

A

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D

D

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Sing you sinners won

G

G

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cha sway n' swing

Check it out

Em

Em

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(Dig the drift of what I mean)

Verse 4

Am

Am

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In a world where there's no music

B

B

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(Old Scratch)

Em

Em

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Satan gets his kicks

Em

Em

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(He's up to his tricks)

C

C

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Am

Am

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He'll be laughing up and down

Em

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the banks

(Hee, hee, hee)

Em

Em

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D

D

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Of that river Styx

Verse 5

G

G

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You're so wicked baby,

and you're depraved

You can rave

C

C

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It's apparent that you have misbehaved

To your grave

But if you should

G

G

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wanna be saved

D

D

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Jus' behave

Am

Am

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D

D

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G

G

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Bbdim

Bbdim

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Take a listen now to the bird...

Verse 6

A

A

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Janis' solo:

D

D

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G

G

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Stop all that chewin' yer cud - and all

C

C

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G

G

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that standin' in the mud there

D

D

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Swing people! Swing every chortle

G

G

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Bbdim

Bbdim

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from yer mortal portal

D

D

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G

G

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I dig that everyone believes

C

C

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that all cattle prodigies

Are like a sneeze

G

G

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D

D

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Hard blowin'- missin one lick of blowin'

G

G

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talent to show

B

B

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(If y'sing - y' gotta

Verse 7

Em

Em

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swing!)

Verse 8

Am

Am

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But remember that the day

B

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will come when you

Verse 9

Em

Em

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Will be just steak on a plate

Em

Em

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(Folks, y'know it's fate)

Am

Am

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So dig the music of the swing-

o- sphere -

A

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Am

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D

D

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(Before your swing arrives too late) Janis' solo,

continued:

G

G

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That's a little too dark

Still, it's true - we've got breath

C

C

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for such a limited time

G

G

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What are ya, stupid,

D

D

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G

G

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ya cows? - you'd think to sing was a crime

Verse 10

G

G

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C

C

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In defense now; hence now; Here's

G

G

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comes Adele McCluck:

C

C

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Cheryl's solo: Mrs. Mockingbird,

Verse 11

I must say you haven't heard

F

F

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The friendly bellowing swing

C

C

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of our friends the cows -

G

G

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As they shed their way from

C

C

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C

C

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Teagarden to Fuller

Instead of spendin' ev'ry

day jus' sneakin' around

F

F

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Adim

Adim

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To life another lick -

C

C

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These cats work on their cow- tone,

G

G

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so when they get up to blow

C

C

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B

B

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They blow a fatter bone- tone into

C

C

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the ozone

Am

Am

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(And furthermore...) Alan's

Verse 12

solo:

You tweety- birds are

D

D

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always singin' away

E

E

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Am

Am

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Never givin' up thought of what you say

D

D

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We cows do - shedding

takes up most of our day

G

G

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Em

Em

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G

G

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So when we start and settle

C

C

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F

F

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in to play - we can say

Adim

Adim

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A moo is an array of what

C

C

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we've always known to be

G

G

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F

F

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C

C

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The be st and only way to play

Verse 13

C

C

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G

G

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(What we mean to say is...)

C

C

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Be fore the

Verse 14

band will letcha sing

Am

Am

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(Sing with Fletcher Henderson)

C

C

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F

F

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You've got to get y'self to swing

Adim

Adim

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F

F

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(Like the Bean or Satch)

C

C

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So your horn can blow - a

G

G

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single note or two

C

C

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Of deeper thinking

G

G

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(That's the way to swing)

C

C

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So set your mind upon a tone

F

F

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(When you're shedding

Am

Am

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all alone)

F

F

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And you will have a cornerstone

(Like the bass trombone)

C

C

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Blow your horn and take a bow

So that you're swinging

like the cows

Pythagoras would be so proud of us

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Chords

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The original key of Sing You Sinners by The Manhattan Transfer is Ab major.

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