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Beer Barrel Polka

Words by Lew Brown, Music by Jaromir Vejvoda - 1934

Number 1 on the Hit Parade in 1939, played for 16 weeks.

Verse:
C	-	-	G7
-	-	-	C
-	-	-	G7
-	-	-    ( G7    Bb7    Dm    G7)	C
G7	-	-	-
C	-	-	-
G7	-	-	-
-	-	C	-
G7	-	-	-
C	-	-	-
G7	-	-	-
-	-	C	-
F     (Instrumental)	-	-	-
Chorus:
F	-	-	-
-	-	C7	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	F	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	Bb	-
Gm	E7	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.

Play: Verse, Chorus, Turnaround, Chorus.

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Verse:

There's a garden, what a garden,  Only happy faces bloom there,

And there's never any room there,  For a worry or a gloom there,

Oh! there's music and there's dancing,  And a lot of sweet romancing,

When they play a polka, They all get in the swing.

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

Ev'ry body feels so tra-la-la

They want to throw their cares away,

They all go lah-de-ah-d-eay,

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....

(Instrumental)

Chorus:

Roll out the barrel, 

We'll have a barrel of fun,

Roll out the barrel, 

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 barrel, 

For the gang's all here.

 

Turnaround:

(Instrumental)

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Listen to Don Van Paltha play "Beer Barrel Polka" at Mickey Finn's Speakeasy (mp3)

 

Listen to Charlie Tagawa and Peninsula Banjo Band perform "Beer Barrel Polka" (mp3)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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