Chords for Flanders and Swann - Excelsior

[Bb] _ _ [A] _ [Bb] _ Sherpa, sir, [Ebm] Sherpa, [Bb] Sherpa, [Gb] Everest [Eb] lady,
_ _ straight through the [Bb] monastery garden, first on the right.
_ You can't miss it. _
There's a little brown-eyed Sherpa to the north of Kathmandu
[Abm] who was with them [Eb] when they made the great ascent.
[Dbm] It is a [Abm] triumph that I share.
[Gb] I can tell them [A] I was there,
but I [Eb] couldn't be more sorry that I [Ab] went.
[N] _ Oh, it's all right for the tiger of the snows,
the celebrated Sherpa Tenth Singh,
otherwise known as Tenth Singh Norki,
or Sardar Bahutiar Norki Tenth Singh,
or as we call him in the Khumbu, Fancy Pants.
_ It's all right for him.
He goes up and down Everest like a yo-yo,
or as you call it in English, lift.
_ [Bbm] But [B] I've no head for heights, [Bbm] and I can't [B] sleep at night.
[Bbm] It's been [F] stark, [Bb] staring horror for me.
[Fm] Ninety-thirty-three, ninety [Gb]-thirty-five,
[Fm] ninety-thirty [Eb]-six, ninety-thirty-eight,
[Db] ninety-fifty [B]-one, ninety-fifty-two,
ninety [Bb]-fifty-three.
Oh, [Ebm] year [Eb] after year, [F] [Ebm] September or June,
[F] just at the end of [Ebm] that dreary monsoon,
a [Eb] horrible [Ab] rumor would run round [B] the plain,
_ [Ebm] [B] Everest calling, [F] Tenth [Ebm] Singh [Cm] again.
[Abm] Oh, _ [Ebm] _ hooray.
[Eb] When Tenth Singh hears Everest [Abm] calling,
[Db] he drags us up [Gb] time after time.
Oh, [F] life in [Bbm] Nepal's been [B] appalling,
[Bbm] for [F] Sharpas with [Bb] no wish to climb.
[Eb] Up [B] we all go [Bm]
[Ebm] according to plan.
I have [Eb] to carry the [Ebm] oxygen can.
[Eb] With icefalls to camp [Ab] on and cramp in your [Eb] [C] crampon,
[B] Everest calling, [Ebm] Tenth Singh again.
Sure enough, this year he comes bouncing into the village,
shouting, Everybody up Everest.
Last one up's a [Ab] Sharpa. _ _ _ _ _
[Abm] _ [Eb] _ Camp one, [Bbm] no fun.
[F]
Camp [Abm] two, what to do?
_ [Bm] Camp three, too high [Cm] for me.
Up nine [Ebm] thousand feet [Db] to camp [Em] four,
[N] only twenty thousand and two feet more.
_ [A] The western comb, [Abm] I want [Am] me mom.
[Abm] [Bm] The [Bbm] low hot sea, oh, the pain in me [Dbm] tootsie.
The [Db] south [B] col, I feel very [D] unwell.
[Gb] _ [Fm] To the summit, no, I won't come again.
_ [Eb] Yes, Tenth Singh hears [Abm] Everest calling.
[Db] I bear him no [Gb] malice for that,
[F] though he called me a [Bbm] twerp when I [B] told him
some Sharpas [Bbm] prefer it [Bb] down here where it's flat.
I might have cracked back, I'm a man, not a yak.
[Eb]
I'll tremble no more at that [B] haunting refrain.
[Ebm]
Everest [B] calling, [Ebm] Tenth Singh again.
[E] There's a broken-winded Sharpa who is back in Kathmandu.
As a [A] climber, he is just an [F] also [E]-ran.
And India and Nepal [Em] have no [E] use for him at all.
[Ab] Both try to palm him off on Pakistan.
_ [Gbm]
[B] So a frozen-footed Sharpa's on the road to Mandalay,
[Dbm] going low as the Himalayas back to France.
[Abm] [Bm] If you want a repetition of that [C] sort of expedition,
[Bb] you're a better man than I am, Colonel [N] Hunt. _
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