Chords for John McCutcheon - Molly and the Whale / Rubber Blubber Whale

The screen door slammed as Molly burst through, crying,
Daddy, I've just got to talk to you.
I've never seen such a thing before.
It's a whale, a whale down at the shore.
He's big and long and wide and tall.
For me, I wasn't afraid at all.
And he talked to me, and he sang me songs.
Come on, Daddy, hurry up, because he can't stay long.
Her daddy looked up from watching TV, shook his head, and said,
Molly, the things that you see,
there you are telling stories, getting carried away.
Now be a good girl.
Just go out and play.
Dad!
Oh, what's the use?
Grown-ups don't understand that there's life in the sea, just like on the land.
I wonder what it's like way down below.
As she walked on the shoreline, she heard, Hello!
It's my whale!
Hello!
Did you bring your dad?
No, he wouldn't come.
She said, kind of sad.
He doesn't believe he thought that I lied.
The whale laughed.
Well, I'm not so surprised.
You see, lots of people just don't understand
how to talk to the wondrous things of the land,
the animals, birds, the fish in the sea.
But you know the secret.
Now you talk to me.
Tell me all about being a girl,
having arms and legs and hair that curls
and running in brand-new tennis shoes.
Because those are all things that I'll never do.
I wish you could do all the things that I like.
We could go to the movies and ride on my bike
or go to my grandma's.
She's got a horse and eats chocolate chip cookies
and ice cream, of course.
Hey, can you breathe?
_ Why, sure.
Even though I live way down there,
I'm not a fish.
I'm like you.
I breathe air.
So I have to come up to the top of the sea,
and when I get back, the fishes all ask,
What'd you see?
So I have to go back.
I can't stay here long,
for I tell all the tales
and sing all the songs of the world up here
that they'll never know,
because, of course, they all live down below.
So they talked and they talked and they talked some more.
She strolled on the beach, and he swam just offshore.
As the sun settled slow and their shadows grew long,
Molly asked,
Why don't you have words to your song?
But I do, said the whale.
If you listen just right, I'll tell you the secret.
Molly nodded.
All right.
I hear every story that's ever been told.
I listen to everything young and old,
the dreams and the visions,
the lies and the facts.
I remember it all, and I carry it back.
And every song that's ever been sung,
from every land and every tongue,
from every time and everything,
that is in the song I sing.
Molly, dear, dinner's ready.
Mother called from the door.
I wish I could stay.
I'd love to hear more.
She blew him a kiss, and the whale waved his tail.
The whale and the girl, the girl and the whale.
Then he swam off to the deep, still [Ebm] singing his song,
as the sun settled slow and the shadows grew long. _
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] Daddy bought me a rubber blubber [G] whale
Daddy bought me a rubber blubber whale
How I love [D] my rubber blubber rubber blubber rubber blubber
Rubber blubber rubber blubber whale
Sister, _ _ [A] _ [D] she wanted my rubber blubber [G] whale
_ _ _ [D] [G] Oh, you know I [D] really love her
but you cannot have my rubber flubber
rubber flubber rubber flubber whale flubber whale
rubber flubber rubber flubber whale
Well, mama went and bought
another rubber flubber whale
[G] Mama went bought
another rubber [D] flubber [G] whale
How I love my [D] rubber rubber flubber
rubber flubber fluffer
rubber [G]
[D] flubber whale flubber whale
rubber [D] flubber flubber fluffy Whale
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_ [D] I went swimming
with my rubber flubber whale
[G] I took it to the water
in a [D] little yellow [G] pail
How I love my [D] rubber flubber rubber flubber rubber flubber _
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