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