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Shanty In Old Shanty Town

Lyrics by Joe Young, Music by Little Jack Little and John Siras - 1932

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
C7	-	F       C7      Cm	D7
Gm      D7     Dm	E7	F	-
C7	-	F       C7       Cm	-
Dm	E7	Am             Adim	C7
Chorus:----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
F	A7	D7	-
G7	F#7	G7	-
C7                G7	C7	F       Bb      Db7	F                D7
G7       F      Bbm	G7	C7	-
F	A7	D7	-
G7	F#7	G7	-
Bb     Edim     Bb	Bbm	F                   A7	D7
Gm	C7	F	(C7 to chorus)

6-beat intro.  Play 3-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

The above arrangement is in 3/4 waltz time as in the original sheet music.

Click here to listen to the chorus in 4/4 time (4-beats for each cell).

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Verse:

I'm up in the world, But I'd give the world,

To be where I used to be;

A heav -en -ly nest, Where I rest the best,

Means more than the world to me.

 

Chorus:

It's on -ly a shan -ty in old Shan -ty Town,

The roof is so slan -ty it touch -es the ground;

But my tum -bled down shack, By an old rail -road track,

Like a mil -lion -aire's man -sion, is call -ing me back.

I'd give up a pal -ace, if I were a king;

It's more than a pal -ace, it's my ev -'ry thing.

There's a queen wait -ing there with a sil -ver -y crown,

In A Shan -ty In Old Shan -ty Town.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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