Chords for The Bear and the Butcher Boy

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Wrapped up in brown paper, tied up with white string,
He would whistle as he went when [C] he was [F] happy.
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_ He [C] would sing. _ _ _
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[G] _ Well [C] Billy thought he was a butcher boy, he rode a butcher's bike,
Down Dublin's dirty back streets at the dawning of daylight.
He loved a girl named Lucy, Lucy loved another lad,
[F] A soldier tall and handsome, [D] this made young [C] Billy sad.
One day a circus came to town, it had a dancing bear,
But Billy had to go, for he knew she wouldn't be there.
The second he rode up, he knew that something was awry,
[F] The crowd was all agallop [G] yelling, run [C] before you die.
Now the bear was mad with hunger, and had broke free from his chain.
He had [Am] ran face through the big tough way, and all at [C] once he came,
Across the poor young Lucy, fallen curled up on the ground.
[F] The soldier boy was hiding, [G] he was nowhere to be [C] found.
Wrapped up in brown paper, tied up with white string,
He would whistle as he went when [F] he was happy.
_ _ [G] _ _ He [C] would sing.
_ _ _ _ _ Now Billy heard her screams, and knew at once what he must do.
He took off on his trusty bike, and to her aid he flew.
He cycled right up to the bear, and he threw a piece of meat.
[F] The bear spun right around, [G] and he caught that [C] meaty treat.
He scarfed it down in just one bite, and looked up for some more.
Round him circled Billy, trailing sausage on the floor.
Just out of reach he kept him, as he lured the beast away.
[F] The bear had got a taste, no [C] brave young Billy was his prey.
Wrapped up in brown paper, tied up with white string,
He would whistle as he went when [F] he was happy.
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_ He [C] would sing. _ _ _
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_ He [C] would sing.
Three times around the tent the creature had to stop him.
He rested [Am] and he thought, then he began to [C] scoop and hop.
He danced a polka on the walls, to everyone's delight.
[F] The crowd began to clap and [D] cheer, at such a [C] wondrous sight.
Billy tossed the bear a lamb chop, then a mighty tea-bowl snare.
The dancing just got faster, and the ground began to shake.
He swallowed whole two turkey strings of sausages galore.
[F] Then fully gently lay [D] down, and began to [C] loudly snore.
Well the crowd went wild with pleasure, as to our hero Lucy ran.
She forgot the soldier boy, no brave young Billy was her man.
Now the moral of the story is, if you want to win your Lucy,
[D] You better have a trusty [G] bike and a sausage [C] plump and juicy.
[Gm] A [C] sausage plump and juicy.
Wrapped up in brown paper, tied up with white string,
Now he never whistles [F] every day.
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Every day [C] he sings, la la, dee dee dee dum dee dee dum da.
And every day, _ [G] _
every [C] day he sings, la la, dee dee dee dum dee dee dum da.
Dum dee dum dee dum. _
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[D] _ _ [C] You've got chitterlings and chicken wings, clever [D] tongue or fair,
Desert scout or marabou, game and [C] grouse or quail,
There's trotters, cheeble, eggs or thighs, brisket, [D] neck or [C] jowl,
Partridge, duck and turkey, [G]
as in any [C] bottle.
Kibble-eye [D] round or sirloin, knapsack, rump or flank,
Wising board, London broil, porterhouse or [C] shank,
Black pudding, bacon rashers, scratching chicken feet,
Haggis, ham and sweet bread, there's every kind of meat.
You've got shoulder [F] mutton or rabbit, [C] a rack of [G] lamb or chucks,
Veal, [F] venison, troit, [C] and kidney or darts.
Dum dee dum dee dum.
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