Chords for Seven and a Half Cents - The John Wilson Orchestra

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[C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Gm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [F] I figured it out, I figured it out With a pencil and a pad, I figured it out
_ _ Seven and a half cents [C] doesn't buy a hell of a lot
[F] Seven and a half cents [C]
doesn't mean a thing [F] But give it to me every [Bb] hour, forty hours
every week [F] That's enough for me to be living like a king
I figured it out, _ I figured it out _ With a pencil and a pad, I figured it out
_ [Bb] Only five years from [Dm] _
[F] today Only [C] five [F] years from today
I can see [A] it all [Dm] before me Only [G] five years from _
[Cm] today
[C] _ Now let's see, [F] five years, that's 260 weeks times 40 hours every week
At roughly two and a quarter hours overtime At time and a half for overtime
Comes to exactly _ $852 _ _ .74 _ [D] Hooray!
_ _ _ _ [C] That's enough for me to get an automatic washing machine
A year's supply of gasoline Carpeting for the living room
Not _ _ _ to mention a 40-inch television [F] set [C] So, although [F]
seven and a half [C] cents
doesn't buy a hell of a [F] lot Seven and a half [C] cents doesn't mean a thing
[F] But give it to me every [Gm] hour, forty hours every [F] week
That's enough for me to be living like a king
I figured it out, _ [A] I figured it out [C] With a pencil and a pad, I figured [Gb] it out
_ [F] Only ten years from [D] today Only ten years [C] from today
[Bm] _ I can see [Bb] it [Am] clear as daylight [E] Only ten _ [D] years from today
[G] _ _ _
Ten years, now [Eb] let's see, that's _ 520 weeks times 40 hours every week
At roughly two and a quarter hours overtime At time and a half for overtime
Comes to exactly $1 _ ,605 _ _ .48 _ [G] Hooray! _ _ _ _
That's enough for me to buy a trip to France across the seas
Moat a boat with water skis Maybe even a foreign car
A charge a count of the corner [Dm] bar And not to mention a Scrabble board
With [G] letters made of [C] gold So, although [F]
seven and a half [C] cents
doesn't buy a hell of a [F] lot Seven and a half _ [C] cents doesn't mean a thing
But [F]
give it to me every [Bb] hour, forty [Gm] hours every [F] week
That's enough for me to [C] be living [F] like a king
We figured it [C] out, we figured it out We figured it out, we figured it out
With a pencil and a pad, we figured it out _ _ _
Only [F] twenty _ _ years from [C] today _ _ _ _ [G]
Only twenty _ years from [C]
today
_ I _ [B] can see [E] it like [Am] a vision _ Only _ _ _ twenty [C] _ _
years _ _ [D] from _ [G]
today
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ Twenty years, now let's see, that's 1,040 weeks
[F] Times 40 hours every [E] week At roughly two and a quarter hours overtime
At time and a [Em] half for overtime Comes to exactly $3 [F] _ _ ,411 _ .96
[G] _
Wow!
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ That's [G] enough for me to be
A sultan in a Taj Mahal In every room a different doll
I'll have myself a buy a screen, buy a [Dm] capillary Then I could end up [G] having
Haskell [C] work for me So, although [F] seven and a half [C] cents
doesn't buy a hell of a [F] lot Seven and a half [C] cents doesn't mean a thing
[F] But give it to me every [Gm] hour, forty hours every [F] week
That's enough for me to be [C] _
living _ like a king _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _
_ Seven and a half cents from the Pajama Gang The only show about a strike over
a seven and a half cent wage rise at a pajama factory
Sung by Seth MacFarlane and Anna Jane Casey _