Boom-Boom, Ain't It Great To Be Crazy?

Words & Music:

Traditional

 

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G7   C                          G7 C    G7   C                          G7        C

Boom-boom, ain't it great to be crazy?  Boom-boom, ain't it great to be nuts like us?

F         C       G7      C      G7   C                          G7 C

Silly and foolish all day long.  Boom-boom, ain't it great to be crazy?

 

'Way down south where the cotton grows, a cockroach stepped on an elephant's toes.

The elephant said with tears in his eyes, "Why don't you pick on someone your size?"

 

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A man bought a pair of combination underwear.  Wore 'em nine years without a tear.

Had to take 'em off 'cuz he got an irritation.

Couldn't get 'em off, 'cause he lost the combination.

 

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Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.  Fuzzy Wuzzy cut his hair.

So, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy.  No, by Jove, he wasn't, wuz he?

 

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A horse and a flea and three blind mice sat on a tombstone, shooting dice.

The horse he slipped and fell on the flea.

"Whoops!" said the flea, "there's a horsie on me!"

 

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Up in the north and a long way off, a donkey got the whooping cough.

He coughed so hard, his head fell off.  Up in the north and a long way off.

 

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Ee-i, ee-i, ee-i sox.  A dollar for a pair and a nickel for a box.

The longer you wear 'em, the shorter they get.

Put 'em in the washer and they don't get wet!

 

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The provenance of the attached easy arrangement is unknown.  It is part of a collection that people gave me over the years.  Please inform me if correctly attribute it.