If I Were A Moose chords by Fred Small

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
C majorC E minorEm DmDm G+G

Verse:

  C majorC         E minorEm
If I were a moose and you were a cow

DmDm        G+G
Would you love me anyhow?

DmDm           E minorEm
Would you introduce me to your folks

     FF         G+G
Would you tell your friends, "No moose jokes!"

  G+G    C majorC A minorAm DmDm  G+G     C majorC   G+G
If I were a moose and you were a cow

C majorC          E minorEm
Would you invite me to your club

  DmDm      G+G
And risk a cruel bovine snub

DmDm              E minorEm
Would you lead me down the receiving line

  FF          G+G
And boldly boast, "This moose is mine!"


FF     G+G    C majorC    A minorAm
Would your parents watch us graze

FF      G+G      C majorC   A minorAm
Shake their heads, "It's just a phase"

  DmDm     E7E7    A minorAm   Am7Am7
Or would they thank the stars above

   D MajorD         G+G
Their precious heifer's found her love?


C majorC            E minorEm
Would your grandparents change their will?

DmDm            G+G
They'd really expected a Holstein bull

DmDm          E minorEm
"For this we toiled before the plow

  FF              G+G
You bring home someone who's not even a cow

     FF    G+G   C majorC   A minorAm
"There's lots of proper stock around

     FF     G+G      C majorC   A minorAm
Like that nice young Guernsey at Farmer Brown's

    DmDm   E7E7    A minorAm    Am7Am7
Or that last one  we ridiculed and cursed

  D MajorD         G+G
On second thought you could do worse

Bridge:

E7E7           A minorAm
"But if you think this thing will last

     FF    G+G    C majorC    A minorAm
Could he learn to moo and eat our grass

FF     G+G    C majorC   A minorAm
 Shed his antlers in the dirt

D7D7           G+G
 Could you persuade him to convert?"


    C majorC       E minorEm
If our anatomies did not quite fit

DmDm         G+G
Would you make the best of it

DmDm        E minorEm
Would you nuzzle up so near

  FF          G+G
And hum sweet cow tunes in my ear?


FF       G+G   C majorC    A minorAm
 Or would you sadly break it off

   FF    G+G    C majorC      A minorAm
When all the hillside sneered and scoffed

DmDm        E7E7    A minorAm   Am7Am7
 "You know these moose are all the same

    D MajorD             G+G
They're lazy, they're stupid, they come from Maine"


C majorC            E minorEm
It's true things slip a moose's mind

   DmDm      G+G
That cows remember all the time

DmDm        E minorEm
Bulbous nose and knobby knees

 FF         G+G
A augmentedA coat that harbors ticks and fleas


   FF     G+G  C majorC   A minorAm
But a moose can be a handy thing

   FF   G+G      C majorC  A minorAm
When hungry wolves come visiting

DmDm   E7E7   A minorAm   Am7Am7
 In icy gust of winter storm

  D MajorD        G+G
Our fur is deep and dry and warm


  C majorC          E minorEm
And someday should your milk run dry

  DmDm        G+G
And farmer stare with baleful eye

  DmDm        E minorEm
In dead of night I'd slip your noose

  FF          G+G
And lead you home to the land of moose

  G+G    C majorC A minorAm DmDm  G+G     C majorC  G+G
If I were a moose and you were a cow

like bridge:

E7E7         A minorAm
If hunters came to do me harm

FF     G+G    C majorC   A minorAm
 Would you hide me in the barn

   FF    G+G     C majorC   A minorAm
Would all the herd come on the run

  D7D7        G7G7
And glare until they dropped their guns?

Interlude:
C majorC E minorEm DmDm G+G

Outro:

DmDm         E minorEm
Might you permit a goodnight kiss

FF            G+G
Could you learn to love wet moose lips?

  FF G+G    C majorC  A minorAm FF        C majorC  A minorAm
If I were a moose  and you were a cow

DmDm G+G     C majorC A minorAm DmDm  G+G    C majorC
 If you were a cow  and I were a moose