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Chinese Laundry Blues

by Jack Cottrell · posted by harmusman

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A number popularized by George Formby. Sorry blues fans, it's a comedy song, but then, maybe you can blues it down.

 4    5   5  5   4 -4  5    5   5  4 -4
Now//mis-ter Wu was a/laun-dry man in a/
 5    5   4  -4    4    5    3
shop with an old green/door, he/
 -5   -5  -4   -4  5  -4  5  4~~~ 4
irons all day your/li-nen a-way,-- he/
 -4 -4   5   -3  -4~~~   3    -5  -5   -4   -4 5
rea-ly makes me/sore;-- he's/lost his heart to a/
 -5  -5   -4   -4  -4
Chin-ese girl, and his/
  5    4   -4   4     5    5
laun-dry's all gone wrong all/
 -4  -4     5   -3    -4    -4    5      -3
day he'll flirt and/scorch your shirt, that's/
 5   5   -5   5   -4   6     6   6   6
why I'm sing-ing this/song:  Oh, Mis-ter/
 5       6     6   6  5~~~~~~ 6    6    6
Wu,---/-what shall I/do?---/-I've got those/
 5   4   5     4     5   4    5  -4    4~~~~~~~
kind of Lime-house/Chin-ese laun-dry/blues.---/-
  4  -4  5  -5   -3~~~~~  4     -4  4    5    6~~
This fun-ny/fee-ling--/-keeps round me/steal-ing/
~~ 5   -4    5   -5    6    -6    -5   5  -4
--why/don't you throw your/sweet-heart ov-er,/
6~~~~~~ 6    6    6    5~~~~~~  6   6    5
do!---/-my vest's so/short---/-that it won't/
 6  5   6   5   6   5     5  5   4   5   4
fit my lit-tle/bro-ther, and/my new Sun-day/
  5    4   5  4  5   4  5  4   5   4   -4   4
shirt has got a/per-for-a-ted/rud-der! Mis-ter/
5~~~~~  5   5    5  -6~~~~~~  5    6    5
Wu---/-I'm tell-ing/you,---/-I've got those/
 5   4   5     4    5   4    5   -4   4~~~~~~~~
kind of Lime-house/Chin-ese laun-dry/blues.--/--

Yours Harmusman







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