What A Tavern... What A Town chords by Johnny Bond
Verse 1
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Howdy friends this is Johnny Bond.
When I was a kid one time
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I was digging around in our attic
and I stumbled across an
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old dime novel
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entitled Ten Nights in a Barroom.
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Now I never got a chance to read that book
but many's the time
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that I've imagined what it was like.
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Shall we daydream together?
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Here's an old frontier town,
there's the saloon,
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the doors swing open and
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inside we hear,
there is a tavern in the town,
in the town,
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and there my true love sits and down,
sits and down,
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and drinks his wine as merry as can be,
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and never, never thinks of me.
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Fare thee well, for I must leave you,
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do not let the parting grieve you,
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and remember that the very
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best of friends must part.
Adieu, adieu, kind friends, adieu, yes, adieu,
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I can no longer stay with you,
stay with you, ho, ho,
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I'll hang my heart on a weeping little tree,
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and may the world go well with thee.
Now that we're inside the saloon,
let's meet the bartender.
His name is Bottle in Bond,
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the bashful, brow -beaten,
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brainwashed, birdbrain bartender,
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and here he is.
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The bar is open.
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Ah, here comes my first drunk,
I mean customer.
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How do you do, sir?
What'll you have?
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Oh, wouldn't you like to know?
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You don't like me, do you?
I believe that you are undoubtedly the ugliest man
I ever saw in my life. Ah, you're drunk.
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Yeah, but tomorrow I'll be sober.
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Sticks and stones.
Look, do you want a drink or don't you?
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You talked me into it.
I'll have a martini,
but you gotta make it my way.
And just what is your way?
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I'm gonna tell you.
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You take two gallons of gin.
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Two gallons of gin it is.
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One tenth of a drop of vermouth.
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Light on the vermouth.
No ice.
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Lukewarm. No olive.
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No olive, oh no.
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Now, that's some martini.
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Would you like me to rub a little bit of lemon
peel around the edge of the glass?
Look, Buster, if I wanted a lemonade,
I'd ask for it.
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Ha ha ha!
Dig my grave both wide and deep,
wide and deep
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Place tombstones at my head and feet,
head and feet
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Ho ho and on my chest
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Just carve a turtle dove
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To signify I died for love
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Fare thee well for I must leave thee
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Do not let the parting grieve thee
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And remember that the very
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best of friends must part
Adieu, adieu, kind friends, adieu, yes, adieu
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I can no longer stay with you, stay with you
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Ho, ho, I'll hang my heart
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on a weeping rose tree
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Fare thee well, fare thee well, fare thee well
What A Tavern... What A Town
Johnny Bond
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