Key: G major
Verse 1
C
G
Busy Little Sewing Bee
D
G
Em
A
Where's your fellow, poor Penelope?
D
G
It's ten years since he went away,
C
G
Ab
I bet he's dead and underclay
G
A
If not, where is he,
D
G
Busy Little Sewing Bee?
Dm
G
C
that he'll return one day
Bb
C
life that went astray.
F
Dm
Gm
And I'd almost forgotten this silk
F
Bb
Here's a scrap of rib bon
D
Gm
A
I borrowed on the day we wed.
Dm
Em
Here's a square of linen
A
Dm
D
from our marriage bed.
C
G
Lord Almighty, where is he?
D
G
Ten years back he left bored and bent
C
Ab
Illegally or free to wed
G
A
Don't act so dizzy
G
C
Eb
It's a lazy afternoon
F
Ab
It's a lazy afternoon.
C
F
D
thumbs till he comes?
C
G
Busy little sewing bee
Verse 2
G
Em
A
Choose a fella, sweet Penelope
Verse 3
before
C
Ab
I finished up my sewing joy
Verse 4
G
A
D
G
Here's a tizzy, busy little sewing bee
Verse 5
F
G
C
say which a way
Verse 6
F
C
just sit there and stitch away
Verse 7
Bb
F
While you wait for your cat
F
He's
Verse 8
Bb
F
cornered every lad about,
F
Bb
Eb
so let him go to blaze his love,
Ab
Bb
Eb
and don't be so darn smooty!
F
Fm
Bb
Eb
So pick another cutie!
Ab
Bb
Penelope, you're frivolous,
Eb
Ab
we have no time to lose!
Eb
Ab
Bb
The next ten years may shrivel us,
Eb
Ab
the time has come to choose!
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
Db
Eb
which way will my heart go?
Gb
C
in the Smith or Farmer Joe.
F
Bb
F
Bb
Row, my row, row up the river.
F
Dm
All aboard, all aboard,
G
Cm
let our common red may.
F
Bb
Which way, which way
Dm
Gm
does that old red river run
C
F
Dm
G
From Rhododendron to the setting
A
D
G
C
Cm
C
F
sun?
C#
C
and has the gall
Bb
C#
C
Penelope, don't let him stall,
Bb
Db
He drinks and gambles and rambles,
Cm
Ab
and back to home he ambles.
G
C#
C
F
Throw him right out on his ear.
G
C#
C
F
Throw him right out on his ear.
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