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Beer Barrel Polka

Words by Lew Brown, Music by Jaromir Vejvoda - 1934

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
C	-	-	G7
-	-	-           G7+	C
-	-	-                  Cm	G
-	-                 Dm7	G7    Bb7    Dm    G7	C
G7          E     G7	-	-	-                Cdim
C          Cdim  C	-	-	-                Cdim
G7	-	-	-
-	C	-	-
G7          E     G7	-	-	-                Cdim
C          Cdim  C	-	-	-                Cdim
G7	-	-	-
-	C	-	-
F6	-	-	-
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
F	-                 Fdim	F	-
-	-	C7	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	F	-
-	-                  Cdim	F	-
-	-                  F7	Bb	-
Gm        Gm7	E7	F	-           Fdim  F
G7	C7	F	-  ( end after repeat)
Turnaround:-----	------------------	------------------	------------------
Dm	-	A7	Dm
C	-	G7	C
-          Cdim	-          C7	-	-  ( to chorus)

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

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Verse:

There's a gar -den, what a gar -den, On -ly hap -py fa -ces bloom there

And there's nev -er an -y room there For a wor -ry or a gloom there

Oh! there's mus -ic and there's dan -cing And a lot of sweet ro -man -cing

When they play a pol -ka They all get in the swing:

Ev -'ry time they hear that oom -pa -pa

Ev -'ry bo -dy feels so tra -la -la

They want to throw their cares a -way

They all go lah -de -ah -de -ay

Then they hear a rumble on the floor
It's the big surprise they're waiting for
And all the couples form a ring
For miles around you'll hear them sing...

(4 measures with no lyrics)

Chorus:

Roll out the bar -rel We'll have a bar -rel of fun

Roll out the bar -rel We've got the blues on the run

Zing! Boom! Ta -rar -rel Ring out a song of good cheer

Now's the time to roll the bar -rel For the gang's all here.

 

Turnaround:

(sometimes called the "dogfight")

(no lyrics, repeat chorus)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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