Chords for Bill Bailey does Tom Waits

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OK, time to go across once again to Dictionary Corner.
Bill, what have you got for us?
Well, Jimmy, I have a musical sensation.
This is a _ song which, as we're talking about vowels and consonants,
this is a song which extols the virtues of the consonant.
_ _ If you take them away, we're lost.
And this is in the style of, [Am] you know, the crooner Tom Waits.
_ _ And [C#m] it's a _ reworking of a classic nursery rhyme.
You may know it.
Old MacDonald.
[A] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [Am] Old _ MacDonald
_ _ [F] _ _ Sick of the [Am] farm
_ [F] Wants a new [Dm] life, a new place to [E] go _
_ _ But [Dm] if you strip away the consonants [Am] From _ _ reinvention
_ [F] You get EI
[E] _
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[E] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ Old _ [Am] _ _ _
_ MacDonald
_ _ [F] Time to give up [Am] the _ booze
[F] Should have done this [D] a long time [E] _ ago
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ Suck out [Fm] the vowels
_ [Am] Of best _ intentions _ [Bm] EI _ _ _
_ [E] EI
No _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ more echoes [C] on the farm
_ _ No _
_ [F] _ _ _ more duck sounds [C] in the air
_ _ [F] There's _ _ _ a quack [C] quack here
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ But there's no quack [E] quack there _
_ _ Drunk _ [Am] _ _ _
on the insurance money
[F] _ _
[Am] Torching the farm
_ [F] Old MacDonald _ [Dm] gets a [E] tattoo _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] It's there on his arm amongst [Am] the _ skulls and the _ livestock [Bm] It's EI _ [E] _ _ _ EI [Am] EI _ _
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