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