Chords for Being a Cantor - Oy Vey!

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_ _ What does a cantor actually do? _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gbm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Gbm] _
_ _ [D] _ _ Being a cantor
People sure expect a lot from you this just in an email I received from one of my congregants
[Ab] _ _ _ _ [D] Dear _
Cantor I am David Burson [Eb] my uncle died today
They're shipping his dead body to [Ab] New Jersey from LA.
Will you sing some Sinatra [Db] with the other Jewish [F] stuff?
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_ No, oh
_ [G] I'm canter person.
[D] Can you sing some more [A] if I were a rich man?
They tore [D] a door [Gm] my kitties [G] shimane and old man River [B] too and after [D] Kaddish
I'll be seeing you
Is [Bb] it true?
Is it true?
[F] Yes, it's true.
It is true [C] after _
Seeing [D] you [Gbm] only [A] in [D] America
_ _ _ _ _ one [G] more
Thing and so Schwartz can we [D] finish by noon?
We're bringing guests to Central Park in a hot-air balloon
[Gm] I'm already failing and [D] I just shed [B] a tear
[E] Cuz this will [B] be bar mitzvah of [D] the year
_ [Bb] Of the year of the year [F] of the year of the year.
[C] This will be
a big [D] year
[Gbm] That's [A] what I fear
[D] _ _ [Ab] Would you officiate as cantor [Db] in a restaurant?
[Bbm] We are [Bm] dark for the [Bb] only day
[A] Have his [D] young keep or uh-huh
_ _ _ [G] Wait Patrick Asman.
[D] There's one more detail the grooms a Baptist minister who [D] spent time in jail
[G] Would you [Gm] consider I know it's not the [B] norm, but [Ab] isn't it?
Okay if you're [D] a form
You're [Bb] a fool.
You're a forum.
I [F] will fall
_ [C] and
Anything [A] goes if you're [D] at home.
Whoa.
Oh in addition to the
[Eb] _ _ Unpredictable requests and comments and interesting characters that we can't ears encounter every day
One thing we know for sure no one in the Jewish [C] world
holds back [N] their opinion _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] Everyone is an expert and they have no problem telling you and [F] in the words of Julie Andrews _ _ _ _
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[A] Nood means _ _ _ [E] we've [Bb]
complained second _ last for a thousand
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_ Our _ [F] hearts will be _ [B] stressed with the sound [Eb] of _
_ _ _ _ _ And _ they'll [F] fetch
_ _ _ [Bb] one small Oh
_ _ [D] _ _ Cantor
[Gbm] _ Enter [D] and she's singing lower.
[D] I'm struggling [Eb] to see can't you sing in English?
[Ab] I don't understand a thing.
Can you get rid of the organ [Db] and I don't mean to [Bbm] be crass [B] but can't [Bb] hurt
This [A] is not a [D] Catholic mass
_ _ The
_ [G] Life of a cantor a [D] surprise every day [Em] the things that [E] they expect of [D] you
This thing people say [Gm] just being a cantor [D] is more than singing Call [B] me _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] The life [Bb] of a [A] cantor is more
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