Busy Line

A little invention can be used here when you play the brrrr brrrr. Maybe a bit slick tongue switching or fast head shake. It is tabbed as musically written.

    3 -3  4   5   4  -4  4   5  4  -4~~  4
    I put a//nick-el in the tel-e-phone and/
  5     4  -4  4   -3" 3~~ -3" 4
dialled my ba-by's number- got a/
5     4  5     4  5     3~~ -3 -4  
b-r-r-r, b-r-r-r, b-r-r-r-- bus-y/
 4    3    -3" 4   5   4 -4  4  5  4  -4~~~   4
line Each time I/tried I got a bus-y tone,-- but/
 5  4  -4  4   -3"  3~~~  -3"  4
not my ba-by's num-ber,-- just a/
5     4  5     4  5     3~~~ -3 -4
b-r-r-r, b-r-r-r, b-r-r-r,-- bus-y/
 4~~~~~~  -3"    4
line---- called her/
-4  4  -4 4  5  -4~~~~   4  -4 
un-cle in Ja-ma-ica,--- left a/
 5   6~~~   5    6   5  4~~~~~-3" 4
mes-sage-- with the bak-er,--- ev-en/
  -4     4  -4   4  -4  4   5 -4   4 
checked her num-ber in the tel-e-phone/
 3~~~~~   -3" 4  -4  4  -4    4   5  -4~~ 4  -4
book;--- Then I/ got so awf-'lly wor-ried to my/
5   5    -4   5 -5   5    -3" -3"
Ba-by's house I hur-ried, when I/
  -4   -4  -4  -4    -4   -4  -4  -4
looked in-side the 'phone was off the/
 6      3 -3" 4   5    4  -4 4  5  4   -4~~~ 4
hook;  and as I/walked up to my ba-by, then- I/
 5  4  -4  4   -3"  3~~~ -3"  4  
got my ba-by's num-ber-- she was/
 5  4 5   4   5   3    4  -4  4   5~~~~ -5  6 
bus-y in the par-lour and do-in'/fine---bus-y/
 -6  -6   -6  -6   -5    -6
kiss-in' some-one else while/
6  6    6  -5   5  6  4   4  -4
I was keep-in' bus-y get-tin' a/
5       4  5       4  5       3~~~ -3 -4  4
b-r-r-r-r, b-r-r-r-r, b-r-r-r-r,-- bus-y/line--/

Yours Harmusman