49.Play That Barbershop Chord
VERONICA ＆ the QUARTET：
In the evening by the moonlight, you should drop,
you folks should drop down to the old barbershop.
VERONICA：
Old barbershop...
down in the great big rathskeller
where a swell colored fella,
by the name of Bill Jefferson Lord
QUARTET： played the piano while he'd sing a song
VERONICA： Mmm-mmm.
QUARTET： He just sang and played the whole night long.
VERONICA：
Till...one night a starry-eyed lady
they call lovable Sadie heard him playing that barbershop chord.
QUARTET： When he finished Sadie drew a sigh.
QUARTET： Everytime that she would catch his eye she'd cry...
VERONICA： Mr. Jefferson Lord.
QUARTET： Ooh-wah
VERONICA： play the barbershop chord
QUARTET： Ooh-wah
VERONICA： that soothing harmony
QUARTET： Ba da da da
VERONICA： it makes an
ALL 5： awful, awful, awful hit with me.
VERONICA： Play that strain
QUARTET： Ahhh
VERONICA： just to please me again
QUARTET： ahhh
VERONICA：
'Cause, Mister, when you start that minor part,
I feel your fingers slippin' and a-grippin' my heart.
QUARTET： Oh, Mr. Lord.
ALL 5： Play the barbershop chord
GUY from QUARTET： Mr. Jefferson Lord
VERONICA： Thomas Jefferson Lord
GUY from QUARTET： play that barbershop chord
VERONICA： play the barbershop chord
QUARTET： that soothing harmony
VERONICA： sweet harmony
ALL 5： makes a terrible, terrible, terrible
QUARTET： terr-boo-hoo-hoo-hoo (this is said while Veronica is
still singing terrible)
VERONICA： hit with me.
QUARTET： Play that strain
VERONICA： Play that strain
QUARTET： just to please me again
VERONICA：
just to please me again.
'Cause, Mister, when you start that minor part,
I feel your fingers slippin' and a-grippin' my heart.
VERONICA： Mr. Jefferson Lord
GUY from QUARTET： Mr. Jefferson Lord
ALL 5： Play that barbershop chord!
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