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LAZY RIVER

Words and Music by Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin - 1951

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
F           Db7  D7	F   Bdim   C7	F           A7	Bb         D7
Gm        D7	Gm	G7        D7   G7	C7         C+
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
D7	Db7  D7	G7	Em  Ebm  G7
C                   Gm	C7   Db7  C7	G#dim  C7	F
D7	Db7  D7	G7	Em  Ebm  G7
Bb         A#dim	F      E7    D7	G7        C7	F      E7    D7
G7         C7	F (E7 Eb7 to chorus)	------------------	------------------

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

Note: This song is in the key of F, but the chorus starts with a D7 chord.

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Verse:

I like la -zy weath -er, I like la -zy days, Can't be blamed for hav -ing la -zy ways,

Some old la -zy ri -ver sleeps be -side my door, Whis -p'ring to the sun -lit shore.

 

Chorus:

Up a la -zy riv -er by the old mill -run, That la -zy la -zy riv -er in the noon -day sun,

Lin -ger in the shade of a kind old tree Throw a -way your trou -bles, dream a dream with me

Up a la -zy riv -er where the rob -in's song a -wakes a bright new morn -ing, We can loaf a -long,

Blue skies up a -bove, ev -'ry one's in love, Up a la -zy riv -er, how hap -py you can be,

Up a la -zy riv -er with me.

 

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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