Backing tracks

(sniff-bop, sniff-bop, sniff-bop bop)

intro – 4 bars

verse 1
You know I can be found
        (bop bop bop bop)
Sitting home all alone,
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If you can’t come around,
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At least please telephone.
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Don’t be cruel to a heart that’s true.
        (aaah aaa-a-a-a-a-a-ah aaaah)

verse 2
Baby, if I made you mad
    (bop bop bop bop)
For something I might have said,
         (bop bop bop bop)
Please, let’s forget the past,
       (bop bop bop bop)
The future looks bright ahead,
        (bop bop bop bop)
Don’t be cruel to a heart that’s true.
        (aaah aaa-a-a-a-a-a-ah aaaah)
I don’t want no other love,
       (aa-a-a-a-a-ah aaah)
Baby it’s just you I’m thinking of.
(aa-a-a-a-a-ah aaah)

verse 3
Don’t stop thinking of me,
Don’t make me feel this way,
C’mon over here and love me,
You know what I want you to say.
Don’t be cruel to a heart that’s true.
Why should we be apart?
I really love you baby, cross my heart.

verse 4
Let’s walk up to the preacher
And let us say I do,
Then you’ll know you’ll have me,
And I’ll know that I’ll have you,
Don’t be cruel to a heart that’s true.
I don’t want no other love,
Baby it’s just you I’m thinking of.

outro
Don’t be cruel to a heart that’s true.
Don’t be cruel to a heart that’s true.
I don’t want no other love,
Baby it’s just you I’m thinking of.

intro – 4 bars

verse 1
What a day for a daydream.
What a day for a daydreamin’ boy.
And I’m lost in a daydream,
Dreamin’ bout my bundle of joy.

chorus 1
And even if time ain’t really on my side
It’s one of those days for takin’ a walk outside.
I’m blowin’ the day to take a walk in the sun
And fall on my face on somebody’s new-mown lawn.

verse 2
I’ve been havin’ a sweet dream.
I been dreamin’ since I woke up today.
It’s starring me and my sweet dream,
‘Cause she’s the one that makes me feel this way.

chorus 2
And even if time is passin’ me by a lot,
I couldn’t care less about the dues you say I got
Tomorrow I’ll pay the dues for dropping my load
A pie in your face for bein’ a sleepy bull toad.

instrumental – whistling

chorus 3
And you can be sure that if you’re feelin’ right
A daydream will last ’til long into the night
Tomorrow at breakfast you may prick up your ears
Or you may be daydreamin’ for a thousand years.

verse 3
What a day for a daydream,
Custom-made for a daydreamin’ boy.
And I’m lost in a daydream,
Dreamin’ bout my bundle of joy.

outro – whistling

intro

verse 1
When I was a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in the cradle
In them old cotton fields back home.
It was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana,
In them old cotton fields back home.

bridge
Now when them cotton bolls get rotten
You can’t pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home.
It was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana,
In them old cotton fields back home.

verse 2
When I was a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in the cradle
In them old cotton fields back home.
It was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana,
In them old cotton fields back home.

bridge
Now when them cotton bolls get rotten
You can’t pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home.
It was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana,
In them old cotton fields back home.

guitar solo

verse 3 and outro
When I was a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in the cradle
In them old cotton fields back home.
It was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana,
In them old cotton fields back home.
In them old cotton fields back home.

verse 1
   I drove my tractor through your haystack last night
                                                 (Ooh ar, ooh ar)
I threw me pitchfork at your dog to keep quiet
                                         (Ooh ar, ooh ar)
Now somethin’s tellin’ me, that you’m avoidin’ me
                                               (Ooh ar, ooh ar)
   Come on now darlin’ you got somethin’ I need

chorus
‘Cos I got a brand new combine harvester and I’ll give you the key
   Come on now let’s get together in perfect harmony
Oh I got 20 acres, and you got 43
‘Cos I got a brand new combine harvester and I’ll give you the key
(She made I laugh, ha ha)

verse 2
  I’ll stick by you, I’ll give you all that ya need
                                              (Ooh ar, ooh ar)
We’ll have twins and triplets, I’m a man built for speed
                                                   (Ooh ar, ooh ar)
And you know I’ll love ya darlin’ so give me your hand
                                                 (Ooh ar, ooh ar)
But what I want the most is all they acres o’ land

chorus
‘Cos I got a brand new combine harvester and I’ll give you the key.
   Come on now let’s get together in perfect harmony.
Oh I got 20 acres, and you got 43
‘Cos I got a brand new combine harvester and I’ll give you the key.
(Phwooaaarrr, she’s a lovely bit of stuff an’all)

verse 3
  For seven long years I’ve been alone in this place.
                                               (Ooh ar, ooh ar)
Eat, sleep in the kitchen, it’s a proper disgrace.
                                           (Ooh ar, ooh ar)
Now if I cleaned it up, would you change your mind?
                                              (Ooh ar, ooh ar)
I’ll give up drinkin’ scrumpy and that lager and lime.

chorus
‘Cos I got a brand new combine harvester and I’ll give you the key.
   Come on now let’s get together in perfect harmony.
Oh I got 20 acres, and you got 43
‘Cos I got a brand new combine harvester and I’ll give you the key.
(Who loves ya baby, ha)

verse 4 (contains stops)
   Weren’t we grand couple at that last Wurzel dance?
I wore brand new gaters and me corduroy pants.
In your new Sunday dress with your perfume smellin’ grand
    We had our photos took and us holding hands.

chorus and outro
Now I got a brand new combine harvester and I’ll give you the key.
Now that we’me both past our fifties I think that you and me
Should stop this galavanting, and will you marry me?
‘Cos I got a brand new combine harvester and I’ll give you the key.
(Arrr, you’re a fine lookin’ woman and I can’t wait
   to get me hands on yer land, ha ha)

intro – 4 bars

verse 1
I went to a garden party to reminisce with my old friends,
A chance to share old memories and play our songs again.
When I got to the garden party, they all knew my name,
But no one recognised me, I didn’t look the same

chorus – all
But it’s all right now. I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone, so you got to please yourself.

verse 2
People came from miles around. Everyone was there.
Yoko brought her walrus. There was magic in the air.
And over in the corner, much to my surprise,
Mr Hughes hid in Dylan’s shoes wearing his disguise.

chorus
But it’s all right now. I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone, so you got to please yourself.

bridge
Lot ‘n’ da da da, lot ‘n’ da da da (steel guitar lick)

verse 3
Someone opened up the closet door and out stepped Johnny B Goode,
Playing guitar like a ringin’ a bell and lookin’ like he should.
If you gotta play at garden parties, I wish you a lotta luck
But if memories were all I sang, I’d rather drive a truck.

chorus
But it’s all right now. I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone, so you got to please yourself.

bridge
Lot ‘n’ da da da, lot ‘n’ da da da (acoustic guitar lick)

chorus – end
But it’s all right now. I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone, so you got to please yourself.