Chords for Marvelous Toy

[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
When I was [A] just a wee little lad, [D] full of [A] health and joy,
[G] My [D] father Homer came one [E] night and gave me [A] a toy.
[D] A wonder [A] to behold it was, [D] with many [G] colors bright,
And the [D] moment I laid eyes on [E] it, it became my [A] heart's delight.
[D] Oh, it went skit, went skit, went skit, [A] went [D] skit,
Woo-we-woo, [G] went skit, skit, skit.
I never [D] knew just what it was [A] in any [D] sign of the riddles.
[Bm] _ [N] _ _ It's not the end, no, it's not the end.
_ No, we just stopped because we want to teach you the chorus.
Yeah.
But it's not a question of just doing
in what_
I have to sing_
Oh, don't let the baby leave.
We need the sound of that.
_ Let's just integrate it into the music.
So,
anyhow, you want to learn
not just to sing the words of the song,
but the sounds.
There are three of them.
The first one I want to teach you. _ _
Zip!
Zip! _ _ _ _ _
Zip!
So we try it together?
Yes.
One, two, three.
Zip!
_ That was the most
musial expression of that feeling I've ever seen.
But,
you see, the point is that it, for some of you
[F] who are adults, I [N] saw you just turn to one another and say,
Zip!
_ This is not the time _
to be a yuppie. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Take sense of individuality.
Feel that little bubble of delight
as it rises within your spirit and _ goes_
The giggle is helpful,
but not obligatory.
Let's try it. _
One, two, three.
Zip!
Best I've ever heard in my whole life.
This next one is really going to be a challenge.
It is going to be a challenge.
This is going to be tough because it sounds awful
and if you're not careful,
you're going to mess up somebody in front of you.
The sound is, I'll do it right now.
Zip!
_ _ Eww, gross city.
Okay, let's try it.
One, two, three.
Zip!
_ _ That _ _ was pretty good.
Let's try it.
You want to practice a little bit behind closed hands? _ _ _ _ _
Are we ready for this?
Are we ready for this?
Okay, here we go.
With a certain amount of [B] restraint.
[Ab] Remember, some of you are looking
into [E] camera lenses.
[N] _
You ready?
One, two, three.
Oh, quintessential.
quintessential.
_ Third song.
Here we go.
This is the sound of an engine
that really functions
the way you wish
any engine would function.
It's sort of a cross
[Abm] between a Ferrari
[Bb] and your [N] vacuum cleaner.
_ _ And it should start at this side of the theater
and go all the way over
to that side of the theater.
Sort of, remember stereo? _ _
_ _ Rrrrrr! _ _ _ _
That's not it yet.
_ Let's be really
boisterous, loud,
crass,
effective.
Alright.
One, two,
three. _ _ _ _ _
Marvellous.
_ Remember the song we were [D] doing? _ _
Yeah, where is it
[A] when it moves
and when it's [D] up and
[G] _
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUGH
When it stood still
I never [D] knew just what [A] it was
And I guess I [D] never will
The first time [A] that I picked [D] it up
I had a [A] surprise
[G] Cause right on the [D] bottom were two bigger buttons
[E] that looked like [A] they'd create eyes
I [D] first pushed one Whooo [N] Whooo Whooo Whooo Whooo
And [A] then the other RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
[D] And [E] then I twisted [G] it's lid
And when [D] I set it down again
[E] Here [A] is what it did
It went stiff when it moved
And when it [N] stopped and
It [G] stood still
I never knew [D] just what [A] it was
And I guess I [D] never will
_ It first marched left
[A] And then it marched right
[D] And then it marched [A] under a [Em] chair
[G] When [D] I was wearing [E] a jacket, wasn't even [A] there, I started to [G] cry.
_ [N] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] But my daddy [Gb] laughed.
[D] I just knew [G] that I would find, when I turned [D] around, my marvelous toy [E] would be chugga-chugga [A]-chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga-behind it.
When it moved, [Dm] when it stopped, [Gb] when _ [G]
it stood still, I never [D] knew just what it was, [A] and I guess I [D] never will.
The years have passed [A] by too quickly it seems.
[D] I have my own little girl and [A] my own little boy.
[G] And yesterday _ [N]
I went up to the attic.
_ I was looking around for those wonderful little treasures that I'd hidden away for Christmas or Hanukkah or other special occasions.
Peeking here, peeking there, and all at once I saw out of the corner of my eye my marvelous toy where I'd left it when I was only eight or nine years old.
And I said, what a terrific idea.
I'm going to go [Ab] downstairs and give it to [N] my children.
And they're going to play with it and love it just the way I did.
And I went over to it and I pushed a button [Em] and [Ab] nothing happened.
Right.
Aww.
_ [Dbm]
[Fm] All of a sudden I heard a chorus of sympathetic [N] voices in my ear. _ _ _
No pun intended.
And _ _ I pushed another button.
Sure it would work this time.
[E] And nothing happened again.
[Bb] Aww.
The chorus [N] was getting itself together.
_ _ And then I tried twisting its leg.
_ _ And it was stuck. _
_ _ And then I realized my part in this foolish role.
I had left it up there unattended and uncared for when I was so young.
And I loved my marvelous toy so much.
All of a sudden I became just the way I was when I was so young.
And I knelt down and I put my arms around my marvelous toy and I said, _ I'm sorry.
And then [B] I heard that [Gb] magic [C] sound.
[N] And I knew the very next time I pushed a button [Ab] it was going to work.
And [N] so I reached over.
_ _ _ [E] [D] It [A] was working again, [D] friends.
It was working again.
I took it downstairs to my children and there I [A] feel it pop right out of their [D] head.
They gave [G] a squeal of glee.
None of [D] us know just [Em] what it is.
But they got it in the [E] same fashion that I always loved it.
[Dm] Not to perpetuate that grammatical error, Tom [A] Paxton.
It still [Em] _ [Dm] goes [A] zip when it moves it.
When it stops [G] and, [N] brrrrr. _ _
When [D] it [G] stands still.
I [D] never knew just what it [A] was.
And I guess [D] I never would have realized it was a toy.
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ [Em] _ [Dm] _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _