Key: A major•
Intro 1
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A
C
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C
Verse 1
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C
There's mosquitoes on the river
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C
Fish are rising up like birds
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C
Too hot to even speak now
Verse 2
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C
Say, it might have been a fiddle
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C
Or it could have been the wind
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C
I can feel it in my feet now
Chorus 1
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Adim
There's a band out on the highway
Dm
A
They're high-stepping into town
Dm
A
It's fireworks, calliopes and clowns
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Bm
Everybody's dancing
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B
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D
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Bm
Come on children, come on children
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B
Come on clap your hands
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E
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D
Sun went down in honey
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G
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D
And the moon came up in wine
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A
You know the stars were spinning dizzy
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Lord the band kept us so busy
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D
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A
We forgot about the time
Interlude 1
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F#
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Verse 3
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They're a band beyond description
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C
Like Jehovah's favorite choir
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C
While the music plays the band
Verse 4
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Crazy rooster crowing midnight
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C
Balls of lightning roll along
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C
Women laugh and children scream
Chorus 2
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Adim
Keep on dancing through the daylight
Dm
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Greet the morning air with song
No one's noticed
Dm
A
Was it ever here at all?
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B
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D
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Bm
Come on children, come on children
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B
Come on clap your hands
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E
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D
Well the cool breeze came on Tuesday
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G
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D
And the corn's a bumper crop
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G
A
And the fields are full of dancing
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Full of singing and romancing
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The music never stopped
Interlude 2
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F#
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Outro 1
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C
[Repeat and fade]
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