The Tale Of Mr Morton chords by Schoolhouse Rock

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: DbDb

Difficulty: Novice

DbDb         AbAb        GbGb
This is the tale of Mister Morton
         AbAb
Mister Morton is who?
DbDb        AbAb
He is the subject of our tale
    GbGb          AbAb
And the predicate tells what Mister
      DbDb
Morton must do

           AbAb       GbGb
Mister Morton walked down the street
       AbAb     DbDb
Mister Morton walked
           AbAb       GbGb
Mister Morton talked to his cat
        AbAb
Mister Morton talked
                   BbmBbm
   (Hello, cat. You look good.)

Mister Morton was lonely

Mister Morton was

    GbGb        AbAb
Mister Morton is the subject of the
DbDb          GbGb    AbAb
Sentence and what the predicate says
    DbDb
He does

          AbAb        GbGb
Mister Morton knew just one girl
       AbAb     DbDb
Mister Morton knew
          AbAb        GbGb
Mister Morton grew flowers for Perl
       DbDb      BbmBbm
Mister Morton grew

Mister Morton was very shy

Mister Morton was

    GbGb        AbAb
Mister Morton is the subject of the
DbDb           GbGb    AbAb
Sentence and what the predicate says
    DbDb
He does
AbAb
The subject is a noun, that's person

Place or thing
   DbDb
It's who or what the sentence is about
    AbAb
And the predicate is the verb

That's the action word
   Bb majorBb
That gets the subject up and out

key change:

Eb MajorEb          Bb majorBb       AbAb
Mister Morton wrote Pearl a poem
       Bb majorBb       Eb MajorEb
Mister Morton wrote
           Bb majorBb
Pearl replied in the afternoon
AbAb         Bb majorBb        DbmDbm
Pearl replied by a note

Mister Morton was very nervous

Mister Morton was

   AbAb        Bb majorBb
Mister Morton is the subject of the
Eb MajorEb          AbAb     Bb majorBb
Sentence and what the predicate says
    Eb MajorEb
He does!

   Bb majorBb
The cat stretched

The sun beat down
 Eb MajorEb
A augmentedA neighbor chased his kid

(Come here kid - come on!)
   Bb majorBb
Each sentence is completed when
  AbAb        Bb majorBb
You know the subject did

Eb MajorEb          Bb majorBb       AbAb
Mister Morton knocked on her door
        Bb majorBb       Eb MajorEb
Mister Morton knocked
         Bb majorBb
Mister Morton sat on her porch
         AbAb   Bb majorBb     C minorCm
--Yes, he just-- sat and rocked

Mister Morton was a Nervous man

When she opened up the door he ran

Eb MajorEb          Bb majorBb       AbAb
Mister Morton climbed up his stairs
        Bb majorBb      Eb MajorEb
Mister Morton climbed
           Bb majorBb       AbAb
Mister Morton rhymed pretty words
       Bb majorBb     C minorCm
Mister Morton rhymed

Mister Morton was lonely

Mister Morton was
  Bb majorBb
Until Pearl showed up with a single rose
 Bb majorBb
Who says women can't propose?
Eb MajorEb           Bb majorBb
 Now Mister Morton is happy
   AbAb          Bb majorBb
And Pearl and the cat are too
Eb MajorEb      Bb majorBb        C minorCm
 They're the subjects of the sentence
        AbAb    Bb majorBb     Eb MajorEb
And what the predicate says, they do