Chords for OLD ZIP COON - 1834 - Performed by Tom Roush

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Old Zip Koon, he's a learned scholar.
Old Zip Koon, he's a learned scholar.
Old Zip Koon, he's a learned scholar,
sings [A] possum up a gumtree and Koony in a holler.
Possum up a gumtree, Koony on a stump.
Possum up a gumtree, Koony on a stump.
Possum up a gumtree, Koony on a stump.
In over-dubble trouble, Zip Koon will jump.
Oh [D]-o, Zipidadidandan-dadan, Zipi-dadiday. _
[A] _ [D] Zipidadamenteadadadindanay.
Zip a dad and dad and dad and zip a dad and day
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[D] _ _ _ [G] [A] Oh [D] _ [A] _
[D] it's ol' Sukie Blueskin, she is in love with _ _ [A] _
[D] me
_ _ Went [Bm] to the Otter [A] Arthur noon to [D] take a dish of tea
_ _ [G] What do ya think now Sukie, have a [D] supper?
[F#] _ [Em] _ [A] [D] What you can put in [A] Possum Hill without any butter?
[D] Oh_
Zippo-dut-in-dut-in-dut Zippo-dut-in-day
Zippo-dut-in [A]-dut-in-dut Zippo-dut-in [D]-dut-in-day
Zippo-dut-in-dut-in-duc Zippo-dut-in-day
Zippo-dut-in-dut-in-dut Zippo-dut-in-day
[Bm] [A] Did _ _ [D] you ever see the wild goose sailing on the ocean?
Did you ever see the [A] wild goose sailing on the [D] ocean?
Did you ever see a wild goose sailing on the ocean?
The [Bm] wild goose [A] motion is a [D] very pretty notion
Every time the wild goose beckons to the [G] swaller
Every time the wild goose beckons to the [D] swaller
Every [F#m] time the [Em] wild goose [A] beckons to the Swallow, [D] You hear him [A] google google google google gobbler.
O [D] Zip a Dud, Dud and Dud, zip a Dud today.
Zip a Dud, Dud [A] and Dud, _ [D] _ zip a Dud today.
I _
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[D] down to Sandy Hall to tell her _ _ _ [A] Archer news.
[D] And _ _ the first [Bm] man I shared [A] to know were [D] old Zip council.
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[F#m] _ _ [A] Oh, [D] old Zip a Dutton-Dutton [A]-Dutton, Dip [D] a Dutton-Day!
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[A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ My old [Bm] missus she's [A] mad with [D] me My old missus [A] _ [D] _ [A] [G] she's [D] mad with me
My old missus she's mad with me My old missus she's mad with me
of the battle [A] of New Orleans.
[D] Suppose you heard the battle of New Orleans,
where old [Bm] General Jackson [A] did the [D] British beans.
Dare the Yankee boys do the job so slip [G]-trick.
Dare the Yankee boys do the job so slip [F#m]-trick.
Dare the Yankee boys [Em] do the job [A] so slip [D]-trick,
for they cost old [A] Parkenham and wrote him up to burst.
Oh, [D] oh, zippa-dut-n-dut-n-dut-n-zippa-dut-n-day.
Zippa-dut-n-dut-n [A]-dut-n-dut-n-day.
[D] Zippa-dut-n-dut-n-dut-n-zippa-dut-n-day.
[Bm] Zippa-dut-n-dut-n [A]-dut-n-zippa [D]-dut-n [Bm]-day.
_ [A] _ [D] _ [A] I [D] had many things to talk about but don't know which come.
I had many things to talk about [A] but don't know which come.
I [D] had many things to talk about but don't know which come.
[Bm] So here to toast the whole tiff [A] toon before you [D] begin to rust.
May he have the pretty girls like the King of old.
[G] May he have the pretty girls like the King of old.
[F#m] May he have the pretty [Em] girls like the [A] King of old,
[D] who sang his songs so many [A] times before he turned to mold.
Oh, [F#m] [D] oh, zippa-dut-n-dut-n-dut-n-zippa-dut-n-day.
Zip-a-dut-na-pa [A]-dut-na-pa-dut-na [D] _ _ -day_
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[D] _ [B] _ _ [E] Oh zip-a-dut-na-pa-dut-na-pa-dut-na _ _ [B]-day_
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