Key: F major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was walking
down the high street
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When I heard footsteps behind me
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And there was a little old man (hello)
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In scarlet and grey,
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A
shuffling away (laughter)
Well he trotted back to my house
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And he sat beside the telly (oaah)
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With his tiny hands on his tummy
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Chuckling away,
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laughing all day (laughter)
Verse 2
Oh, I ought to report you to
the gnome office
(gnome office)
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Yes
(hahahahaha)
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Ha ha ha,
Verse 3
hee hee hee
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"I'm a laughing gnome and
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you can't catch me"
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Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
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"I'm a laughing gnome and
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you can't catch me"
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Said the laughing gnome
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Verse 4
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Well I gave him roasted toadstools and a glass
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of dandelion wine (burp, pardon)
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Then I put him on a train
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to eastbourne
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Carried his bag and gave
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him a fag
(haven't you got a light
boy? )
"here, where do you come
from? "
(gnome-man's land, hahihihi)
"oh, really? "
Verse 5
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In the morning when I woke up
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He was sitting on the edge of my bed
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With his brother whose name was fred
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He'd bought him along to sing me a song
Verse 6
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Right, let's hear it
Here, what's that clicking
noise?
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(that's fred, he's a "metrognome",
haha)
Verse 7
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Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
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D
"I'm a laughing gnome and
you can't catch me"
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D
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
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"I'm a laughing gnome and you
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can't catch me"
Verse 8
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(own up, I'm a gnome, ain't I right,
A
haha)
"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
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Now they're staying up the chimney
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And we're living on caviar and honey
A
(hooray!)
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Cause they're earning
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me lots of money
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D
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Writing comedy prose for radio shows
It's the-er (what? )
Verse 10
It's the gnome service of course
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Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
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"I'm a laughing gnome and
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you can't catch me"
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Ha ha ha, oh, dear me
Verse 11
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(ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing gnome and
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you can't catch me"
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D
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
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"I'm a laughing gnome and you
D
can't catch me")
Verse 12
(one more time, yeah)
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