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