Intro -

Warble -4 -4b (wah ah wah ah wah ah wah ah wah ah wah ah wah ah wah ah wah ah wah ah)-4 -3 -2 |-4 -3 -2|-4 -3 -2|-4 -3 -2|-2b -2b -2b -1b|-4 -3 -2//

Build up momementum with -123(dah) 123(dit) -123 -123(dah dah) --123(dit) -123 -123(dah dah) -123 -123(dit dit) -2 -1 -2 -1

Rhythm going into the verse -123(dah dah dah dah) 123(dit dit) -123(dah dah dah) -2  -2b -2 -2b

Oh now when I get the blues gonna get me a rockin’ chair
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Oh now when I get the blues gonna get me a rockin’ chair
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And if the blues overtake me gonna rock in on away from ‘ere
-6 -6b -6 -6b -6 -6b -6 -6b -6 (mouth wah ah wah ah wah ah wah ah)
Oh when I get lonesome I get on the telephone
-2b -3b -2b -2b -3b (mouth wahdodowah)
Oh when I get lonesome I get on the telephone

Gonna call my baby tell ‘er I’m on my way back home
-2 -2b -2 -2b -2 -3b -2b -2b -3b (mouth waheowwah)

Well, flip, flop & fly
I don't care if I die
-6 -6 -5 (mouth weeweedeewudda)
Flip, flop & fly
-67 (weeweewudda)
I don't care if I die
Don't ever leave me, don't ever say goodbye

Give me one last kiss hold it a long long time
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Give me one last kiss hold it a long long time.
-7 -7 -6 -6 -5 -5 -4 -3 (mouth chugachugachuchuga on first -6)
And hold that kiss till I feel it in my head like wine.
-4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 (mouth chuchuga reapeatedly on three each)
Well here come my baby flashin’ a new gold tooth

Well here come my baby flashing a new gold tooth
-4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 (chugachugachuchuchuchugachuga)
Well she’s so small she can mambo in a payphone booth
-4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 (chugachugachuchuchuchugachuga)
Well, flip, flop & fly
I don't care if I die
Flip, flop & fly
-1 -1 -1 -1 -1 (owowowowow)
I don't care if I die
-4 -3 -3 (chugachug)
Don't ever leave me, don't ever say goodbye
Lou Marini
(Sax solo)
Like a Mississippi bullfrog sitting on a hollow stump
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Like a Mississippi bullfrog sitting on a hollow stump
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I got so many women I don’t know which a way to jump
-3 -3 -4 -3 -3 -4
Well, flip, flop & fly
I don't care if I die
-3 -3 -2 -3
Flip, flop & fly
I don't care if I die
-1 -1 -2 -1 (wahwahwahdeeow)
Don't ever leave me, don't ever say goodbye
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