Chords for Dave Van Ronk "One Meat Ball"

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_ I used to have to do this, _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ or I [Bm] hated it.
_ _ _ _ And [N]
I just flied _ _ for years, nay nay [Bm] nay, decades. _ _ _
_ _ _ Until I was _ [B]
just about a year old, I was doing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ it in the Seattle [Bm] counties. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I was in the tracing room, and I don't know [N] who _ _ must have left this behind. _
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_ _ _ _ _ And it _ _ was a result of _ _ _ _ _ _ into the _ _ _ _ farm. _ _
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_ [B] _ One meatball was _ _ [N] _
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_ _ _ _ just_
I picked this thing up and I took a look at it.
I had never really paid for _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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the recording of it.
_ But it turns out the song originates, _
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which means _ that_ _ _
_ _ _ _ There it was, happily, _ [D#] _ _ untranslated. _ _
Until there was a dinner party at _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] Old Cambridge Mass.
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_ _ _ The three of them proceeded to get shit-faced drunk. _ _ _ _
_ _ Wrote this, [Bm] _ _
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_ and sang it [N] again.
I mean, _ _ anything that these _ three_ [Bm] _ _ _ Stitches_
_ Had put together under those circumstances should _ _ _ _ go unsung.
[B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
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_ [F#] _ _ [B] _ A little man walked [D#m] up and down, _ found an [B] eating place in town.
_ _ Looked the menu [Em] through and through, [F#] to see what fifteen cents could [B] do.
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One [G] meatball, _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ [F#m] one _ [Em] _ [F#] meatball.
_ [B] He couldn't [F#] afford but [Bm] one meatball.
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_ [G] _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ He told the [F#] waiter near at hand. _
Simple [Bm] dinner he had planned, well the guest was startled.
[Em] _ Wanted off, [D#m] to hear that waiter loud.
_ [B] _ One [A] _ [G] meatball, [F#] _ _ _ [Bm] one [F#m] _ [Em] _ [F#] meatball.
_ [B] Exited, just [F#] watched [A] one [Bm] _ [A] meatball. _
_ [G] _ [F#] _ _ _ [B] The little [F#] man felt ill at ease.
Said some [Bm] bread, sir.
If you please, will the waiter. _
[E] Hollered, down the hall.
[F#] You get stuffed bread with one meatball.
[Em] One [A] meatball, [Em] _ [F#] _ _ _ [Bm] [A] one [G] meatball.
_ [F#] _ [B] You get stuffed [F#] bread with _ [Bm] one [A] meatball.
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[F#] _ _ [B] _ The little man [F#] felt very bad.
One [B] meatball [Bm] was all he had, well in his [Em] dreams he_
Yes, I [F#] called.
Get stuffed bread with one _ [D] meatball.
One _ [G] meatball, _ [F#] _
_ [Bm] _ [A] one _ [G] meatball.
[F#] _
_ _ [B] You get stuffed_
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