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