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