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02 Feb 16 - 11:56 AM (#3770119) Subject: Tune Req: It Won't Last Very, Very Long From: Rivermusic I know the tune to this song in my head and I can sing it unaccompanied, as it is usually sung. However. I'd really like to strum my guitar along to it. Does anyone have a link to a source where I might find the chords that fit this song? Or the dots so that I can work the chords out. It was written by Frank W. Carter & R. P. Weston |
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02 Feb 16 - 01:43 PM (#3770144) Subject: Lyr Add: IT WON'T LAST VERY VERY LONG From: Rivermusic These are the words if it helps anyone IT WON'T LAST VERY VERY LONG One fine night I toddled to a dance, What the people call a 'Cinderella' ball I wore a button-hole, and the girls upon my soul Said I was a 'pretty fellow' Soon to me came Arabella Brown, pulling up her railway sock 'Oh Mr Winkle-pip, do have a waltz, it's not yet twelve o' clock. And it won't last very, very long No, it won't last very, very long Round we went till I said, 'Whoa! They'll be trouble in a tick, I know There's buttons on my trousers, and the pin's not over strong Run away, Miss Brown, I can feel them coming down And it won't last very, very long.' Late last night - oh talk about a fright, Taking off my clobber I had just been I was dying with the pip - went to go to 'kip' Soon I heard a struggle in the dust-bin Up I shoved my window in a jiff, saw a tabby cat outside Chasing another one all around the yard, 'If that's your game,' I cried. 'It won't last very, very long It won't last very, very long Off I went and got my gun Shot one bullet up his hot-cross-bun Tom said, 'Now you've got a bull's eye My bell goes ding-ding-dong You've done quite enough to my little bit of fluff So it won't last very, very long.' Yesterday I went and sold my horse Really ought to took him to the knacker's For to make him go I always had to sew On his tail a blooming lot of crackers I white-washed him out in the yard Put sticks in his ears somehow They looked like horns, so I sold him For a good milking cow. But, 'It won't last very, very long It won't last very, very long The rain came down, the white-wash dripped The old milk man a big pail gripped His old gal said, 'What a funny cow. Something must be wrong.' Then cried, 'I suppose it's an overflow of milk And it won't last very, very long.' Last week, straight, I went and won a pig Got it in a raffle for a tanner I didn't want to roam, quickly took it home And gave it to my wife, Hannah Friday we made jelly of its feet Saturday we fried its head I made a bacca-pouch of its ears Then my old woman said, 'It won't last very, very long It won't last very, very long All the kids they turn quite pale When we bashes them with that pig's tail Off its waistcoat of a night time When the baby starts his song We keep cutting off a bit to make an india rubber tit So it won't last very, very long.' |
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02 Feb 16 - 04:00 PM (#3770176) Subject: RE: Tune Req: It Won't Last Very, Very Long From: GUEST,# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePiWcgzIDZE You can get an idea of the melody at that link. It's done without instrumentation, but the chords should be straight forward. |
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02 Feb 16 - 09:03 PM (#3770234) Subject: RE: Tune Req: It Won't Last Very, Very Long From: GUEST,leeneia I checked the song on the video against my keyboard, and I think it it's in the key of G, 4/4 time. Try the chords G, D and C. |