Key: F major•
Intro 1
Bb
F
Bb
F
Bb
F
C
Verse 1
down the high street
Ab
C
When I heard footsteps behind me
Ab
C
And there was a little old man (hello)
F
C
In scarlet and grey,
F
C
shuffling away (laughter)
Well he trotted back to my house
Ab
C
And he sat beside the telly (oaah)
Ab
C
With his tiny hands on his tummy
C
F
C
laughing all day (laughter)
Verse 2
Oh, I ought to report you to
the gnome office
(gnome office)
Bb
Yes
(hahahahaha)
Verse 3
hee hee hee
Bb
F
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
Bb
F
Said the laughing gnome
C
Verse 4
Ab
Well I gave him roasted toadstools and a glass
(haven't you got a light
boy? )
"here, where do you come
from? "
(gnome-man's land, hahihihi)
"oh, really? "
Verse 5
Ab
C
He was sitting on the edge of my bed
Ab
C
With his brother whose name was fred
F
C
F
He'd bought him along to sing me a song
Verse 6
Here, what's that clicking
noise?
haha)
Verse 7
Bb
F
"I'm a laughing gnome and
you can't catch me"
Bb
F
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
Verse 8
Ab
F
(own up, I'm a gnome, ain't I right,
"haven't you got an 'ome
to go to? "
(no, we're gnomads)
"didn't they teach you to get your hair cut at
school? you look like a rolling gnome"
(no, not at the london school
of ecognomics)
Verse 9
F
C
F
C
Writing comedy prose for radio shows
It's the-er (what? )
Verse 10
It's the gnome service of course
Bb
F
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
Bb
F
Ha ha ha, oh, dear me
Verse 11
"I'm a laughing gnome and
Bb
F
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
Verse 12
(one more time, yeah)
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