Key: B major•
Verse 1
B
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B
When you
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B
had left our pirate fold,
C#
F#
With quip and quibble quaint.
A#
F#
B
Baug
We lay and sobbed upon the rocks,
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G#m
A#
Un til to somebody occurred
A paradox!
A paradox!
A most ingenious paradox!
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B
We quips and quibbles heard in flocks,
But none to beat this paradox!
A perky new paradox!
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B
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
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B
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B
F#
A paradox!
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F#
We knew your taste for curious quips,
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F#
For crags and contradictions queer,
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B
How, Frederick, would the joke enjoy,
And so we've risked both life and limb
to tell it to our boy.
That paradox,
that most ingenious paradox,
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A#
D#
With quips and quibbles heard in flux,
D#m
B
But none to beat that paradox!
a most ingenious paradox!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
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B
F#
B
A paradox!
to which, however,
However, I have no desire
Some personal authority,
I don't know who,
Very likely the Astronomer Royal
for such a beastly month as February
One year in every four,
His days should be reckoned
Through some singular coincidence,
I shouldn't be surprised
if we're going to the agency
You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement,
having been born in Leap Year
on the 29th of February.
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B
C#
And so, by a simple arithmetical pro cess,
Though you have lived twenty -one years,
yet if we go by birthdays,
D
G
Yes, yes, with yours my figures
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G
Em
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do agree.
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F#
How quaint the ways of paradox
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mocks
Years twenty -one I've been alive
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E
Yet reckoning by my natal day,
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C#
F#
Yet reckoning by my natal day
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F#
B
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B
A most in
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B
genious paradox!
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B
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