Royal Garden Blues

ROYAL GARDEN BLUES
By: Clarence & Spencer Williams
Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald
Key: F, Bb

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No use of talk-in' no use of talk-in'
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You'll start in dog-walk-in' 
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no mat-ter where.
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There's jazz-co-pa-tion blues mod-u-la-tion,
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Just like a Hait-ian you'll rip and tear.
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Most ev-‘ry-bod-y likes the blues

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Here's why I'm rav-in', 
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here's why I'm rav-in'
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If it's blues you are crav-in' 
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just come on down.
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You'll hear 'em play-in', 
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you'll hear 'em play-in'
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Soon you'll be say-in', 
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"Hon jazz me 'round"
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Be-cause your feet they can't re-fuse.

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What's that fa-mil-iar strain 
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that true blue note re-frain
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It's driv-in' me in-sane;
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Can't keep still, 
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Tho it's a-gainst my will;
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I'm on my P's and Q's I just can't re-fuse.
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There goes that mel-o-dy, 
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it sounds so good to me,
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And I am up a tree;
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It's a shame, you don't know the name;
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It's a brand new blues, 
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The Roy-al Gar-den Blues.

Key: Bb
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Ev-‘ry-bod-y grab some-bod-y 
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And start jazz-ing 'round

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Hon don't you hear that trom-bone moan?
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Just lis-ten to that sax-o-phone.
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Gee, hear that clar-i-net and flute, 
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Cor-net a jazz-in' with a mute,
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Makes me just throw my-self a-way, 
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When I hear 'em play.

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That weep-in' mel-an-cho-ly strain, 
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Say, but it's sooth-ing to the brain;
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Just wan-na get right up and dance, 
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Don't care I'll take most an-y chance;
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No oth-er blues I'd care to choose, 
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But Roy-al Gar-den Blues.