If I We're A Moose chords by Fred Small

Intro:
C  Em  Dm  G

Verse:

   C                  Em
If I were a moose and you were a cow

Dm                G
Would you love me anyhow?

Dm                     Em
Would you introduce me to your folks

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

   G        C Am Dm    G          C     G
If I were a moose  and you were a cow


C                   Em
Would you invite me to your club

    Dm           G
And risk a cruel bovine snub

Dm                           Em
Would you lead me down the receiving line

    F                   G
And boldly boast, "This moose is mine!"


F          G       C        Am
Would your parents watch us graze

F           G            C      Am
Shake their heads, "It's just a phase"

   Dm         E7        Am     Am7
Or would they thank the stars above

      D                 G
Their precious heifer's found her love?


C                       Em
Would your grandparents change their will?

Dm                       G
They'd really expected a Holstein bull

Dm                    Em
"For this we toiled before the plow

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


         F       G      C      Am
"There's lots of proper stock around

          F          G           C      Am
Like that nice young Guernsey at Farmer Brown's

        Dm      E7        Am        Am7
Or that last one   we ridiculed and cursed

   D                  G
On second thought you could do worse

Bridge:

E7                     Am
"But if you think this thing will last

         F        G       C       Am
Could he learn to moo and eat our grass

F         G       C      Am
 Shed his antlers in the dirt

D7                      G
 Could you persuade him to convert?"


       C             Em
If our anatomies did not quite fit

Dm                 G
Would you make the best of it

Dm               Em
Would you nuzzle up so near

    F                   G
And hum sweet cow tunes in my ear?


F             G     C        Am
 Or would you sadly break it off

     F       G        C           Am
When all the hillside sneered and scoffed

Dm               E7        Am      Am7
 "You know these moose are all the same

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


C                       Em
It's true things slip a moose's mind

     Dm            G
That cows remember all the time

Dm               Em
Bulbous nose and knobby knees

  F                 G
A coat that harbors ticks and fleas


      F         G    C     Am
But a moose can be a handy thing

     F      G           C    Am
When hungry wolves come visiting

Dm      E7      Am     Am7
 In icy gust of winter storm

    D               G
Our fur is deep and dry and warm


    C                   Em
And someday should your milk run dry

    Dm                G
And farmer stare with baleful eye

   Dm                Em
In dead of night I'd slip your noose

    F                    G
And lead you home to the land of moose

   G        C Am Dm    G          C   G
If I were a moose  and you were a cow

like bridge:

E7                 Am
If hunters came to do me harm

F          G       C      Am
 Would you hide me in the barn

      F       G         C      Am
Would all the herd come on the run

    D7               G7
And glare until they dropped their guns?

Interlude:
C  Em  Dm  G

Outro:

Dm                 Em
Might you permit a goodnight kiss

F                       G
Could you learn to love wet moose lips?

   F G       C    Am F               C   Am
If I  were a moose    and you were a cow

Dm  G          C Am Dm   G        C
 If you were a cow   and I were a moose