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It's A Long Way To Tipperary
Words and Music by Jack Judge and Harry Williams - 1912
 Verse:
Bb - -            Bdim7 F7
Bb - A7 Dm
Bb - A7 Dm7
D7 Gm C6           C7 F7
 Chorus:
Bb - - -
Eb - Bb -
- -               Eb Bb -              G7
C7 - F7 -
Bb - - -
Eb - D7 -              Bb
- - A7 Bb
- C7            F7 Bb -      (F7 to chorus)
8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.
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Verse:
Up to mighty London came an Irish man one day.
All the streets are paved with gold, sure everyone was gay!
Singing songs of Piccadilly, Strand and Leicester Square,
'Til Paddy got excited, then he shouted to them there:
 
Chorus:
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary,
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell, Leicester Square!
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.
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Watch the San Francisco Banjo Band perform "Tipperary" (youtube)
 
Listen to The Three Plectrums group play "Tipperary" (mp3)
(Larry Kennedy, Kurt Abell, Dave Frey)
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Arranged by Jim Bottorff
 
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