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The Syncopated Clock

Words by Mitchell Parish, Music by Leroy Anderson - 1946

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F	C7	-	F
-	C7	Bb6       Gm	C7         F    C7
F	C7	-	F
-	C7	Bb6        Gm	C7         F    F7
Bb	Fmaj7	Gm7       C7	Am7       D7
Gm        A7	C#dim     Dm	G7	Bm6             C7
F	C7	-	F
-	C7	Bb6        Gm	C7          F  (C7)

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

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There was a man like you and me, as simple as a man could ever be.

And he was happy as a king, except for one peculiar thing,

He had a clock that worked all right, it worked all right, but not exactly quite.

Instead of going "tick, tock, tick," the crazy clock went "tock, tick, tock."

The poor old man just raved and raved, because nobody could say

Why his silly clock behaved that hickory dickory way.

But now a famous man is he. He owns a public curiosity.

From far and wide the people flock, tohear the synco pated clock.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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