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