Tonart: A major
Verse 1
G
I'm just a simple modest chap
C
G
as any inn can see.
C
I'm easy to get on with
G
C
G
D
if you'll just agree with me.
G
And yet there's folk that scorn me,
D
then they ask the reason why.
G
C
Whenever I show my face they roar,
C
When first I came to London,
G
it was an office echt to see
A
G
Folk singing up and down
D
the place we used to leave for me
G
So today, tonight, or any time,
G
If you join the happy family
that pays me 10 %
It was me invented folk song,
D
and I've made it all the go
G
I'm counting all the folk clubs
as an impresario,
A
D
G
Or tradition, it was day
C
D
until I set it on its feet,
G
And dragged it by the short hairs
C
G
down the length of Denmark Street.
C
I breathed on it and gave it life
G
and sent it to the top,
A
I knew you'd hardly care
D
A
D
it fae the music they cop -pop.
G
So today, tonight, or any time,
G
C
If you join the happy family
D
G
that pays me ten percent
I met a laddy far in the north,
C
G
D
a wee bit feckless boy
G
I kent that he had talent
D
by his suit, a corduroy
G
So I walked up close behind him,
D
and I whispered in his lug
G
I knew the lad's a steamer's only wheel -train poodle,
Doug.
C
Knew he sings for bobby
that's no lie.
A
And yet there's folks still say to me,
D
A
D
no agents need apply.
G
So today, tonight, or any time,
G
C
If you join the happy family
G
that pays me ten percent.
They say a wee bit talent
C
helps a lad to get ahead
D
G
C
G
But my singers have no need o' it,
for they've got me instead
D
G
Their trust in me is boundless,
C
G
D
though there are still some who cry
G
C
Get back to Tin Pan Alley,
G
for no agents need apply
C
I can o' a boot show business,
I don't know
A
I've been hanging around the fringes
D
for the last three years or so
G
So today, tonight, our only time,
C
D
you never will repent
G
If you join the happy family
that pays me ten percent
Oh, little did my mother think
C
when first she cradled me
D
G
That I would be a big shot
C
G
in the folk song industry
D
G
My rise has been spectacular,
there's no one can deny
D
G
C
Except the aura folk
D
G
who say no agents need apply
C
In the programs that are seedy
G
or the budget's somewhat low
C
Am
A
I can get a cut rate spot
D
for you up on the radio
G
C
So today, tonight,
or any time,
D
G
C
If you join the happy family,
G
D
G
that pays me ten percent.
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