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Thread #2949   Message #536281
Posted By: Charley Noble
27-Aug-01 - 04:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Dunderbeck
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: DUNDERBECK'S MACHINE
There's already a composite version of this song in the DT. Here's my family's version which is pretty similar, but with a set of chords that can be repasted into Word, Times Font, Size 12:

DUNDERBECK'S MACHINE
(Anon. – Various sources Tune: The Son of a Gambolier)

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There was a man named Dunderbeck who in-vented a machine,
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It ground out perfect sausages, and it was run by steam,
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Them pussy cats and long-tailed rats, no more they will be seen,
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They's all ground up for sausage meat in Dunderbeck's ma-chine.

Chorus:

F-----------------------------Bb
Oh, Mr. Dunderbeck, how could ye be so mean,
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To ever have invented that sausage meat ma-chine?
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Them pussy cats and long-tailed rats, no more they will be seen,
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They's all ground up for sausage meat in Dunderbeck's ma-chine.


Now one fine day a little boy came walking in the store,
There was a pile of sausages a-lying on the floor,
While he was a-waiting, he whistled up a tune,
And all them little sauages went dancing 'round the room. (CHO)

One night the thing got busted, the darn thing would not go,
So Dunderbeck he crawled inside to find what made it so,
His wife she had a nightmare, she was a-walking in her sleep,
She gave the crank one heck of a yank, and Dunderbeck was meat!

Last Chorus:

Oh, Mr. Dunderbeck, how could ye be so mean?
Ain't you awful sorry now you invented that machine?
Them pussy cats and long-tailed rats, no more they will be seen,
They's all ground up for sausage meat in Dunderbeck's machine.


I moved this message here from another thread on the same topic.
-Joe Offer-