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The Man With The Banjo

Words by Robert Mellin, Music by Fritz Schulz Reichel - 1952

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F               Gm7	F              Gm7	F             F#dim	Gm7          C7
F               Cm7	Bb            Bbm	F             Dm7	C9             C7
F               Gm7	F              Gm7	F             F#dim	Gm7          C7
F               Cm7	Bb            Bbm	F             Gm7	F               F7
Bb            Gm6	Am7         Am	Bb           C7	F               F7
Bb            Gm6	Am7	C9           G7	C7
F              Gm7	F              Gm7	F             F#dim	Gm7          C7
F              Cm7	Bb           Bbm	F             Gm7	F           (repeat)

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

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Who's that coming?  Who's that strumming?  That's The Man With The Banjo.

For a penny, he'll play any song that's happy and gay.

Folks all smile and stop a while, because The Man With The Banjo,

Makes their troubles, burst like bubbles chasing worries away.

See the children running after, while he plays his merry song.

All their hearts are filled with laughter, as they tag a long.

Shadows falling,  Sandman's calling.  There goes The Man With The Banjo,

Gaily humming, softly strumming, on his merry old way.

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Listen to the Ames Brothers perform "Man With The Banjo" (mp3)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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