Chords for Jon Hendricks & The Manhattan Transfer

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Thank you.
_ _ _ _ One of the _ _ _ real enjoyable, one of the many enjoyable things about being in the Manhattan
Transfer is that we get to sing a lot of John Henrik's lyrics.
_ _ And we've been singing John
Henrik's lyrics I guess just about as long as we've been together, _ _ which was back in 1972.
And then in 1980 we had the very, very good fortune of working with John and beginning what
seems to be just an ongoing work in progress with him.
_ And _ a man who's taught us an awful lot
_ about vocal jazz.
And I'm sure there's still an awful lot more to learn.
But the one thing I want
to bring out is that every single time we've ever appeared on a bill together, we've always done
a song together.
So here we are one more time, one wonderful more time on a bill together,
and we're going to sing another [Ab] song together.
So _ please welcome _ John Henrik's.
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[G] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [Fm] _ I [Eb] took care [Bb] of that missionary [F] bid, till the land was here.
Never heard Sir Dranky's [Eb] dad tell the truth.
I never heard another that [C] exasperated more.
When [Eb] it's desperate and I never [Gb] laughed, father says it's [C] the kind of soul that I am.
_ [Gm] Way back when I was [F] crawling on my crib, I was doing all [Abm] kinds of thinking.
[Fm] Already I'd figured out [Gm] the cut of a jib.
The kind of soul that never liked to tell it [Gb] ever been.
My body [Ab] was steady reaching out [Bb] for my mind, I was thinking [C] of time and a thing.
[Bbm] We, I was always one to be free, ain't never [Bb] had to keep cool.
Why [Ab] don't people ever get along together, instead of running around and fussing with the boundaries of the room?
[Gm] Me, I'm the old-fashioned [Fm] kind, I was never [Bb] good at all, I believe.
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[Fm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Ebm] Real, [Db] real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, _
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_ _ [Abm] _ _ [F] real, [Gm] real, real, real, [Ebm] _ real, [Bb] real, _ _
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_ [Bbm] real, real, [Ebm] real, [Gm] real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, [F] _ _ real it the it
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[C] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Bb] _ [Ebm] You birthed it, you birthed that first, [Db] you dig it?
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