Chords with lyrics
Top Forty News Weather And Sports:Mark
Dinning.
81 on BB hot 100
on MGM Records in 1961.
(At the time, hailed as the best novelty
song in years.)
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(Top 40, news, weather and sports..Top 40,
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news, weather and sports.)
#1.
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Last night I was getting my homework up and
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listening to my radio.
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I was kinda sleepy but was writing my theme while
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I was digging my DJ Show.
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It was Top 40, news, weather and sports and I was
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writing on Current Affairs.
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Next morning when I got up to read my theme, you
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should have seen all the classroom stare.
#2.
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Cause I had Lumumba doing the Rhumba to the tune
of the Blue Tango.
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I had Abominable Snowman hunters a-bringing in Fidel
Castro.
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I had President Ike, up at the mike, singing, 'Are You
Lonesome Tonight.'
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I had the U.N. lost in a snow out west and Khrushchev
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squealing, 'You talk too much!'
#2.
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And there was Brenda Lee running track for State and
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there was Kennedy giving a station break.
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And the guys down at Canaveral were shoveling snow..
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hollering, let's go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa..go, whoa,
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whoa, whoa, whoa..go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa..whoa, whoa!!
CHORUS:
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(Top 40, news, weather and sports..Top 40,
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news, weather and sports.)
#3.
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And I had Mickey Mantle riding on a camel through the
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rains down in Death Valley.
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I had Mr. Nehru, at the weather bureau, giving the humidity.
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And I had Lolita, humming mighty sweet-a, New Orleans
off key, key, key.
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Rockefeller, singing a cappella, 'Save that little 'ole dance
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for me.
OUTRO:
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(Top 40, news, weather and sports..Top 40,
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news, weather and sports.)
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(Top 40, news, weather and sports..Top 40,
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news, weather and sports.)...(Fade.)
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