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That's A Plenty

Words by Ray Gilbert, Music by Lew Pollack - 1914

Part 1:
Dm	-	-	-
A7	-	Dm	A7
Dm	-	-	-
A7	-	-	Dm
Part 2:
C7	-	F	-
C7	-	F              D7	G7            C7
-	-	F	-
Fdim	F              D7	G7            C7	F               F7
Part 3:
Bb	-	G7	-
C7	F7	Bb	F7
Bb	-	G7	-
C7	F7	Bb	-   (to Part 5 after repeat)
Part 4:
D	-	-	-
F	-	-	-
F7	-	-	-        (repeat Part 3)
Part 5:
Dm	-	-	-
A7	-	Dm	A7
Dm	-	-	-
A7	-	-	Dm           (End)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

Parts 1, 2 & 5 are in the key of Dm.  Parts 3 & 4 are in Bb.

Play Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 5.  

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Part 1:

That's A Plenty's got a beat in it, The rythm's got a lot of heat in it,
Betcha five, Ten to five, It's gonna getcha doing what its doing to me.
The Dixieland comes oozin out of it, The Dixielanders sure are proud of it,
They call it jazz, What it has, That's A Plenty for me.

 

Part 2:

It takes you down to New Orleans, down Bassin street with all the queens,
You don't have to have the means, A little bit of rhythm and your goin' right with them.
Shut my big round rolling eyes, If you don't rocket to the skies,
Hey boy! Say boy! That's A Plenty for me.

 

Part 3:

You're gonna get mellow when that fellow blows his horn,
Down where the blues were born, You'll be gone. The trumpets are trumpin gonna do me sumpin'.
Beat it out brother there's no other remedy,
And That's A Plenty, plenty plenty for me.

(Go to Part 5 after repeat)

 

Part 4:

(Instrumental 12 measures/cells)

(Repeat Part 3)

 

Part 5:

Once you start you're gonna stay in it, Every night you're out cafein' in it,
Swing your queen, what I mean, brother your as gone as any human can be.
And when you're in the mood there ain't no stoppin' it, Live it breathe it, blow your top in it.
That is jazz, what it has, That's A Plenty for me.

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Watch Scott Anthony perform "That's A Plenty" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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