Ta-ra To Tooting chords by The Younguns

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 5th
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: C majorC

🎸 Verse 1:
  G+G            B minorBm        E minorEm
We gather for the picture, my five mates and me
   G+G       E minorEm       G+G     C majorC
Like dapper little devils, we are young and free
  E minorEm      B minorBm      G+G       C majorC
And I sit in the centre - the captain of the crew
  G+G     E minorEm       D MajorD        C majorC
My coat is an old 'un but my shirt is almost new


🎸 Chorus 1:
   E minorEm      B minorBm       G+G      C majorC
And I sing ta-ra to Tooting and the lads I leave behind
    G+G         E minorEm        G+G       C majorC
For the train waits in the station and it's time for me to ride
     D MajorD             G+G       C majorC
But I'll take this tiny picture so wherever I may be
      G+G    D MajorD    E minorEm   E minorEm   D MajorD    C majorC
There'll be Jim and Jack and Ernie
Norman
Les, and me

🎸 Verse 2:
  G+G              B minorBm         E minorEm
And as we lеft the city and the grey land turnеd to green
 G+G          E minorEm         G+G          C majorC
I thought about those young lads and the things we'd done and seen
    E minorEm           B minorBm     G+G        C majorC
When we fought for the right to ramble the countryside all through
     G+G        E minorEm        D MajorD        C majorC
When the fences were all old 'uns but the land was almost new


🎸 Chorus 2:
   E minorEm      B minorBm       G+G      C majorC
And I sing ta-ra to Tooting and the lads I leave behind
     G+G       E minorEm       G+G        C majorC
And when we came to Newhaven there was one thing on my mind
     D MajorD             G+G       C majorC
But I'll take this tiny picture so wherever I may be
      G+G    D MajorD    E minorEm   E minorEm   D MajorD    C majorC
There'll be Jim and Jack and Ernie
Norman
Les, and me

🎸 Verse 3:
  G+G                 B minorBm        E minorEm
As night fell on the channel and the wind sang on the sea
 G+G          E minorEm         G+G          C majorC
I thought about those young lads and the times they sang with me
     E minorEm       B minorBm     G+G        C majorC
When our tongues told of freedom and every note rang true
  G+G             E minorEm      D MajorD         C majorC
And though our tunes were all old 'uns our words were almost new


🎸 Chorus 3:
   E minorEm      B minorBm       G+G      C majorC
And I sing ta-ra to Tooting and the lads I leave behind
  G+G        E minorEm       G+G      C majorC
As morning broke on Dieppe and the sun began to shine
     D MajorD             G+G       C majorC
But I'll take this tiny picture so wherever I may be
      G+G    D MajorD    E minorEm   E minorEm   D MajorD    C majorC
There'll be Jim and Jack and Ernie
Norman
Les, and me


🎸 Verse 4:
     G+G                B minorBm       E minorEm
When the picture's almost faded, when the memory's almost gone
   G+G       E minorEm      G+G      C majorC
Will I sit then and wonder how we ever were so young?
   E minorEm         B minorBm       G+G         C majorC
Will there be young lads somewhere whose hearts are just as true?
   G+G         E minorEm     D MajorD        C majorC
When our old world has faded will theirs be almost new?

Final 🎸 Chorus:
     E minorEm      B minorBm       G+G      C majorC
Then I'll cry ta-ra to Tooting and the lads I left behind
  G+G      E minorEm  G+G    C majorC
80 years before me or 80 years behind
     D MajorD                G+G       C majorC
And when all that's left's a picture when-ever that may be
      G+G    D MajorD    E minorEm   E minorEm   D MajorD    C majorC
There'll be Jim and Jack and Ernie
Norman
Les, and me


🎸 Outro:
G+G  D MajorD   E minorEm   E minorEm   D MajorD  C majorC
Jim
Jack
Ernie
Norman
Les, me