A Handful of Songs
by Bart, Pratt & Steele · posted by harmusman
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Tab
Sung by Tommy Steele in the film "The Tommy Steele Story" c.1957. Play moderately
4 5 4 -4 -5 -4 5 6 -4~~ 6
//I've got a hand-ful of/songs to sing-you/
-4 5 4 -4 -5 -4 5 6 -4~~ 6
can't stop my voice when it/longs to sing-- you/
-5 -6 -5 6 -7 6
new songs and blue songs, and/
-6 7 -7~~~ -8 8 7 -6~~ 6 -5 -4 6~~
songs to bring--you hap-pi-ness, no/more no less/
4 5 4 -4 -5 -4 5 6 -4~~ 6
More-o-ver,wher-ev-er/we may roam to,/
4 5 4 -4 -5 -4 5 6 -4~~ 6
or a-ny shore where we/may be blown to,/
-5 -6 -5 6 -7 6 -6 7 -7~~ -8
we'll know that we're gon-na/feel at home to/
8 -7 -6~~ -5 -4 6~~ -7~~~ 6 -7 -6 6~~ -6
la bel-la--/mu-si-ca--/jazz,--and/cha cha cha-ca/
-7 6 -6 -7 6 -6 -7
-lyp-sos and street ven-dor/cries, /
-6 -5 -6 -5 -6~~ -9 -9 -8 7 -6
strains of/ old re-frains,/sle-epy time ba-by/
-5 -4 6~~ 4 5 4 -4 -5 -4
lul-la-bies-/I've got a hand-ful of/
5 6 -4~~ 6
songs to sing-you/
4 5 4 -4 -5 -4 5 6 -4~~ 6
I've got a heart full of/love to bring you,/
-5 -6 -5 6 -7 6 -6 7 -7~~ -8
true love for you love, and/loves a thing you/
8~~~~~ 8 -8 8 -9 8 -8 7~~~~~~~ -8 -7
keep--/so here's a/hand-ful of/songs----/-go-ing/
7~~~~~~~~ -7 -7 -7 6 -7 7~~~~~~
cheap----/- just a hand-ful of/songs----/
~ -7 -7 -7 6 -7 7~~~~~~~
- just a hand-ful of/songs----/
~ -7 -7 -7 -7 6 -7 6~~~~~~~~~
- on-ly a hand-ful of/songs----/-//
Yours Harmusman