Lyr/Chords Req: Tubas In the Moonlight

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tubas In the Moonlight
From: leeneia
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 06:46 PM

Thanks all. That's delightful.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tubas In the Moonlight
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 05:09 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqEU3zJ63UE

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tubas In the Moonlight
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 12:07 AM

So can anyone email me an MP3 so I can hear this one?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tubas In the Moonlight
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 04:39 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tubas In the Moonlight
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 05:09 AM

Thanks from me too Bill. I was playing Tadpoles to the kids (aged 8 & 10) the other day and they loved every song!

BJ

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tubas In the Moonlight
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 16 Dec 02 - 10:40 PM

Bill, I've been exploring the Neil Innes site. What a motherload of chords, lyrics, bonzo and ruttles stuff! It will take me days.

Great!

JAB

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tubas In the Moonlight
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 16 Dec 02 - 09:54 PM

Woo Woo! Thanks Bill for the chords! I have been searching for them for some time.

JAB

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Tubas in the Moonlight
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 16 Dec 02 - 02:16 PM

recorded by Bonzo Dog band in 1968

Subject: Chords/Tune Add: TUBAS IN THE MOONLIGHT
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 16 Dec 02 - 02:15 PM

from here: http://www.neilinnes.org/chords/tubas.htm

but added entirely in case the web site goes away:

TUBAS IN THE MOONLIGHT

[Intro]: F C+ F C+
          F Fm C+



F
Through the twilight I can hear the humming

       C#7       F
Of a melancholy coon

(Hmmmm-um)

F
Ah, the memories that still linger

    C#7             F
I thank you Mister Moon

G                      C7
And although I've never smiled

G
Winter, Summer

          C7
Autumn, too

F                   D
Now, here's one tune to remind me

G             C7    *(C+)
Why I feel so blue



F
Tubas in the moonlight

Fm
Playing for me all night

F                      D7
Tell me what I want to hear

G7
Am I only dreaming?

C7
Am I only scheming?

F      F#dim
Stars above me

Gm      C7
Shining brightly

F         F7
Why can't she be

Bb             Bbm
Sitting here beside me?

F            D
Tubas in the moonlight

G7             C7       F      C#7   C7
Will bring my loved one home




[Instr]**: F Fm F D7
            G7 C7 F F#dim Gm C7
            F F7 Bb Bbm
            F D G7 C7 F C+
   
            F Fm F D7
            G7 C7 F F#dim Gm C7
            F F7 Bb Bbm





F            D
Tubas in the moonlight

G7             C7       F    C#7   F
Will bring my loved one home





NB:   
    *The C+ chord indicated by * isn't actually
      played in the recording, but the chord is
      implied by the vocals, so can be played if
      desired.
   

   **Instrumental - adapted for guitar (tab):


    F                Fm                F                D7

E-------------------------------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------------------3------------------
G------------------2-----------------1--------------------2---------------
D---------0--0--3-----------0--0--3-----------0--0--3---------------------
A---3--3--------------3--3--------------3--3------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------


    G7                C7                F    F#dim Gm    C7

E-------------------------------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------1------------------------------------
G---0--2--0--2--0--2--0--2--0--2--0------------------0--0-----------------
D---------------------------------------3--3--2--0---------3--2-----------
A-------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------


    F    F7    Bb          Bbm   F          D    G7         C7    F   C+

E---------------------------------------------0---------------------1-----
B---1-----------3--3--3--3--1--------------------3---------------1--------
G------2--0--------------------3--2--2--1--2------------------2-----------
D------------3---------------------------------------3--0--3--------------
A-------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------


    F                Fm                F                D7

E-------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------------------------------
G------------------2-----------------1-----------------2--2---------------
D---------0--0--3-----------0--0--3-----------0--0--3---------------------
A---3--3--------------3--3--------------3--3------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------


    G7                   C7                   F    F#dim Gm    C7

E-------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------------------------------
G---0--2--0--2--0--2-----0--2--0--2--0--2------------------0--0-----------
D---------------------0-----------------------3--3--2--0---------3--2-----
A------------------------------------------3------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------


    F       F7    Bb          Bbm    F    ***D      

E-------------------------------------------------------------------------
B------------------3--3--3--3--1------------------------------------------
G---2--2--2--0--------------------3---------------------------------------
D---------------3---------------------------------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                       
***(...Tubas in the moonlight...")




-Chords are given above tablature
-*** indicates where the instrumental ends and the lyrics resume.

the tab is cleared on the orignal site, so print it out from there, I'd suggest

---

Messages from multiple threads combined.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tubas In the Moonlight
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 07:03 AM

I cannot believe my first request produced such a hilarious and productive result!!! I issued it before joining up but am now hooked.

Now if I can find the recording I can remember the melody. Thanks all!!!

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tubas In the Moonlight
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 09:47 AM

Thanks for the link, AndyG. I remember one night at London's 100 club in the middle of an Acker Bilk set when two men with a sack came on stage and joined in with various instruments out of the sack. Acker, unfazed, just said "My God it's the Alberts" and let them carry on until they finished the number packed away their instruments and left!
I also saw the Temperance Seven there in various incarnations in the '70s, including Will Hastie playing two tunes simultaneously on two penny whistles!
RtS

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tubas In the Moonlight
From: AndyG
Date: 31 Jan 00 - 04:55 AM

The Web based answers to all questions bonzo as set up by my boss !

AndyG

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tubas In the Moonlight
From: Snuffy
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 07:07 PM

I'll repeat that .....the shirt event!

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Tubas In the Moonlight
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 06:47 PM

Thanks, Snuffy! I think I have that album and perhaps another by the Bonzo Dog Band, but I'd almost forgotten them. Sort of a folk-rock Monty Python. (And what do you think of shirts?) I'm still looking for a turntable so I can listen to all this great music I collected in the pre-CD age.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: Lyr Add: TUBAS IN THE MOONLIGHT (Bonzo Dog Band)
From: Snuffy
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 08:28 AM

Hi Susan!

The Bonzo Dog Band's 1969 album "Tadpoles" (Liberty LBS 83257 in UK) features Tubas in the Moonlight. (BTW when did they drop the Doo-Dah from their title?)

The label credits the song as (Spear) Bron Music, while the sleeve says Spear/Bron. Roger Ruskin-Spear was a member of the Bonzos, but I can't remember if Gerry Bron was. Anyway, he gets producer credits on some of their other albums.

TUBAS IN THE MOONLIGHT

(Slow, semi-spoken)
Through the twilight I can hear the humming of a melancholy coon,
For the memories that still linger, I thank you Mr Moon.
And although I never smile, Winter, summer, autumn too.
Now here's one tune to remind me why I feel so blue.

Tubas in the moonlight
Playing for me all night,
Tell me what I want to hear.
Am I only dreaming?
Am I only scheming?
Stars above me, shining brightly
Why can't she be standing here beside me?
Tubas in the moonlight
Will bring my loved one home.

Sorry I can't help with the Dooley Bros - never heard of them this side of the pond!
Wassail!

Snuffy
^^

Subject: Tubas In the Moonlight
From:
Date: 29 Jan 00 - 08:23 PM

In the mid 70's there was an active band called the Dooley Brothers in Chicago, with a wild and wide repertoire of all things folk. Just for fun they would do what I recall as an a capella version of that must have been a 20's or 30's or 40's tune called Tubas in the Moonlight-- or maybe a spoof of the style they came up with. Complete with mouth tuba effect. I wish I could sing it now. Anyone know it, or where the Dooley Brothers are today?