Chords with lyrics
Also playable with a capo on 4th fret
E MajorE A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA E MajorE BB E MajorE
E MajorE A augmentedA E MajorE
What insurance has the poor man got, with the furniture man?
E MajorE
If he's got no dough, he's got no show
B7B7
Right back there the wagon gonna stand
E MajorE
He'll take everything that you possess
A augmentedA E MajorE
From a bed-tick to a frying pan
A augmentedA E MajorE
If there ever was a devil born without horns
B7B7 E MajorE
It must have been a furniture man
E MajorE
So take your time, Mister Brown, take your time
B7B7
All o' this furniture am mine
E MajorE
Well this piano and everything
A augmentedA E MajorE
Mister Cooper had it written down in my name
E MajorE B7B7 E MajorE (A augmentedA) E MajorE
So take your time, Mister Brown, take your time
E MajorE
Now Sallasa Boose, as everybody knows,
A augmentedA E MajorE
She's the swellest coon in town
E MajorE
She give up all last Friday night
B7B7
Invited all the coons around
E MajorE
The coons come in, chock full o' gin
A augmentedA E MajorE
They tried to race around
A augmentedA E MajorE
There's nobody home but Sallasa Boose
B7B7 E MajorE
And these are the words she said
E MajorE
So take your time, Mister Brown, take your time
B7B7
All o' this furniture am mine
E MajorE
Well this piano and everything
A augmentedA E MajorE
Mister Cooper had it written down in my name
E MajorE B7B7 E MajorE (A augmentedA) E MajorE
So take your time, Mister Brown, take your time
E MajorE
Now the furniture man come to my house
A augmentedA E MajorE
I told him that my wife was sick
E MajorE
He looked all around, rummaged through the house
B7B7
He even down-turned up the bed-tick
E MajorE
He went in the kitchen, he looked on the stove
A augmentedA E MajorE
He grabbed a frying pan
A augmentedA E MajorE
If there ever was devil born without horns
B7B7 E MajorE
It must have been a furniture man
E MajorE
So take your time, Mister Brown, take your time
B7B7
All o' this furniture am mine
E MajorE
Well this piano and everything
A augmentedA E MajorE
Mister Cooper had it written down in my name
E MajorE B7B7 E MajorE (A augmentedA) E MajorE
So take your time, Mister Brown, take your time