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