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ABA DABA HONEYMOON

Words and Music by A. Fields and W. Donovan - 1914

Number 2 on the Hit Parade in 1951, played for 9 weeks.

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
Am	-	-         E7	Am
C         Cm	G          A7	G        D7	G
Am	-	-         E7	Am        C
G         C	G          C	G        D7	G7
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
C         Am	C          Am	C	-
C         Am	C          Am	G7	-
-	-	C	-
D7	-	G7         Dm	G7
C        Am	C         Am	C	-
E7	-	Am	-
Dm	-           B7	C	-
D7	G7	C	(G7 To Chorus)

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

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Verse:

'Way down in the Con -go -land Lived a hap -py chim -pan -zee,
She loved a mon -key with a long tail, (Lord -y, how she loved him!)
Each night he would find her there, Swing -ing in the co -coa -nut tree, And the
mon -key gay, at the break of day, Loved to hear the Chim -pie say:

 

Chorus:

"Ab -a, dab -a, dab -a, dab -a, dab -a, dab -a, dab," Said the Chim -pie to the Monk,
"Bab -a, dab -a, dab -a, dab -a, dab -a, dab -a, dab," Said the Mon -key to the Chimp.
All night long they'd chat -ter a -way, All day long they were hap -py and gay,
Swing -ing and sing -ing in their hon -ky, ton -key way.
"Ab -a, dab -a, dab -a, dab -a, dab -a, dab -a, dab," means Monk I love but you,"
"Bab -a, dab -a, dab," in mon -key -talk, means "Chimp, I love you too," Then the
big ba -boon, one night in June, He mar -ried them, and ver -y soon They
went up -on their ab -a, dab -a, hon -ey -moon.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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