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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 a way.

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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