La Le Too Dum chords by Barbara Dane

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
C   G7   C

Verse 1:
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As I went out one mornin' to greet the pleasant air
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La Le Too Dum, Too Dum, La Le Too Dum Day
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As I went out one mornin' to greet the pleasant air
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I overheard a mother scolding her daughter fair
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La Le Too Dum, Too Dum, La Le Too Dum Day

Verse 2:
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You better go wash them dishes and hush your flatterin' tongue
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La Le Too Dum, Too Dum, La Le Too Dum Day
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You better go wash them dishes and hush your flatterin' tongue
     C                                           G7
You know you wanna get married, that you are too young
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La Le Too Dum, Too Dum, La Le Too Dum Day

Instrumental:48
C
C  G7  C
C   F
C    G7
C  G7  C


Verse 3:
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Well now pity my condition just like you would your own
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  Too Dum, Too Dum, La Le Too Dum Day
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Pity my condition just like you would your own
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Fourteen long years I been living all alone
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La Le Too Dum, Too Dum, La Le Too Dum Day

Verse 4:
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Well supposin' I was willin', where would you get a man?
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La Le Too Dum, Too Dum, La Le Too Dum Day
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Well supposin' I was willin', where would you get a man?
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oh Lord have mercy mama, I could marry that handsome Dan
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La Le Too Dum, Too Dum, La Le Too Dum Day

Verse 5:
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Why theres tinkers and tailors and boys from the plow
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La Le Too Dum, Too Dum, La Le Too Dum Day
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Tinkers and tailors and boys from the plow
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Oh Lord have mercy Mama, I'm a'getting that feeling now
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La Le Too Dum, Too Dum, La Le Too Dum Day

Verse 6:
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Yes theres doctors and lawyers, and men of high de-gree
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La Le Too Dum, Too Dum, La Le Too Dum Day
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Doctors and lawyers, and men of high de-gree
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Some of them wants to marry, one to marry me
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La Le Too Dum, Too Dum, La Le Too Dum Day

Verse 7:
      C                                          G7
Well now my daughters married, she's well for to do
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La Le Too Dum, Too Dum, La Le Too Dum Day
C                                           F
Now my daughters married, she's well for to do
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I'll gather round young fellers. I'm on the market too
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La Le Too Dum, Too Dum, La Le Too Dum Day