Chords for Seven Old Ladies, Carl Peterson and John Allen Cameron
Tempo:
93.75 bpm
Chords used:
D
A
Em
F#
F#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
known as, Oh dear, what can a man to be, [D] Johnny's so long at the fair, he promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons [F#] to tie up my bonnie brown hair.
Now, there was a game going on here called rugby earlier on today.
Rugby players in England, before, during and after a practice or a [F] game, like to drink [G] lots of beer, which puts them in a very sing-song type mood.
And so they take all [A] these old English [F#] songs and they write parodies of them, most of them unsingable in present company.
They're known as rugby ballads, body ballads.
But what happened was some of these songs were again rescued by [D] the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of Scotland in [C#] England
and now sung around the campfires in a cleaned [D] up version.
And this one became very popular.
In fact, I first heard this after I left Scotland.
I heard it very popular in Newfoundland.
It's by a group called the Sons of Aaron, with Bob Donovan in it.
Yes.
So the chorus now is this, if you want to join in.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the lavatory.
[D] They were there from Sunday to Saturday.
Nobody knew they [D] were there.
Do you know any verses of it?
Ah, you know the original ones, is that it?
Yeah.
The ones unsingable in your That's right.
Now the first old lady was Jennifer Pym.
[A] She went in on a personal whim.
And somehow got stuck between the bowl and the rim.
And [A] nobody knew she was [D] there.
Sing along now.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [A] Saturday.
[F#m] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the second old lady was little Miss [A] Humphrey.
She sat down and she made herself [D] comfy.
Tried to get up but could not get her bum [A] free.
Nobody knew she [D] was there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the third old lady was little Miss [A] Draper.
She went in but she couldn't find any [D] paper.
All she could find was a bricklayer's [A] scraper.
Nobody knew [D] she was there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the fourth old lady was a Catholic lass.
[A] She went in just to try and skip mass.
[D] Hot feet was in sight and he pitched her hat [A] back.
And nobody knew [D] she was there.
Undead so dear, what can the [A] matter?
These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the fifth old lady was little Miss Barklett.
[A] She paid her penny and straight in she darted.
[D] What a waste of a penny, cos she only
[Em] To them [A] nobody knew she [D] was there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [A] Saturday.
Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the sixth old lady was little Miss Murray.
[A] She went in in a heck of a hurry.
[D] When she got there it was too late to worry.
[A] And nobody knew [D] she'd been there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got [F#m] stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the last old lady was little Miss Mason.
[A] The toilets were full so she peed in the basin.
[D] That was the water that I washed my face in.
[A] Cos I didn't know she'd [D] been there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to Saturday.
Nobody knew they [D] were there.
Now, there was a game going on here called rugby earlier on today.
Rugby players in England, before, during and after a practice or a [F] game, like to drink [G] lots of beer, which puts them in a very sing-song type mood.
And so they take all [A] these old English [F#] songs and they write parodies of them, most of them unsingable in present company.
They're known as rugby ballads, body ballads.
But what happened was some of these songs were again rescued by [D] the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of Scotland in [C#] England
and now sung around the campfires in a cleaned [D] up version.
And this one became very popular.
In fact, I first heard this after I left Scotland.
I heard it very popular in Newfoundland.
It's by a group called the Sons of Aaron, with Bob Donovan in it.
Yes.
So the chorus now is this, if you want to join in.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the lavatory.
[D] They were there from Sunday to Saturday.
Nobody knew they [D] were there.
Do you know any verses of it?
Ah, you know the original ones, is that it?
Yeah.
The ones unsingable in your That's right.
Now the first old lady was Jennifer Pym.
[A] She went in on a personal whim.
And somehow got stuck between the bowl and the rim.
And [A] nobody knew she was [D] there.
Sing along now.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [A] Saturday.
[F#m] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the second old lady was little Miss [A] Humphrey.
She sat down and she made herself [D] comfy.
Tried to get up but could not get her bum [A] free.
Nobody knew she [D] was there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the third old lady was little Miss [A] Draper.
She went in but she couldn't find any [D] paper.
All she could find was a bricklayer's [A] scraper.
Nobody knew [D] she was there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the fourth old lady was a Catholic lass.
[A] She went in just to try and skip mass.
[D] Hot feet was in sight and he pitched her hat [A] back.
And nobody knew [D] she was there.
Undead so dear, what can the [A] matter?
These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the fifth old lady was little Miss Barklett.
[A] She paid her penny and straight in she darted.
[D] What a waste of a penny, cos she only
[Em] To them [A] nobody knew she [D] was there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [A] Saturday.
Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the sixth old lady was little Miss Murray.
[A] She went in in a heck of a hurry.
[D] When she got there it was too late to worry.
[A] And nobody knew [D] she'd been there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got [F#m] stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the last old lady was little Miss Mason.
[A] The toilets were full so she peed in the basin.
[D] That was the water that I washed my face in.
[A] Cos I didn't know she'd [D] been there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to Saturday.
Nobody knew they [D] were there.
Key:
D
A
Em
F#
F#m
D
A
Em
known as, Oh dear, what can a man to be, [D] Johnny's so long at the fair, he promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons [F#] to tie up my bonnie brown hair.
Now, there was a game going on here called rugby earlier on today.
Rugby players in England, before, during and after a practice or a [F] game, like to drink [G] lots of beer, which puts them in a very sing-song type mood.
And so they take all [A] these old English [F#] songs and they write parodies of them, most of them unsingable in present company.
They're known as rugby ballads, body ballads.
But what happened was some of these songs were again rescued by [D] the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of Scotland in [C#] England
and now sung around the campfires in a cleaned [D] up version.
And this one became very popular.
In fact, I first heard this after I left Scotland.
I heard it very popular in Newfoundland.
It's by a group called the Sons of Aaron, with Bob Donovan in it.
Yes.
_ So the chorus now is this, if you want to join in.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the lavatory.
[D] They were there from Sunday to Saturday.
Nobody knew they [D] were there.
Do you know any verses of it?
Ah, you know the original ones, is that it?
Yeah.
The ones unsingable in your_ That's right. _
Now the first old lady was Jennifer Pym.
[A] She went in on a personal whim.
And somehow got stuck between the bowl and the rim.
And [A] nobody knew she was [D] there.
Sing along now.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [A] Saturday.
[F#m] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the second old lady was little Miss [A] Humphrey.
She sat down and she made herself [D] comfy.
Tried to get up but could not get her bum [A] free.
Nobody knew she [D] was there.
Undead so _ dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the third old lady was little Miss [A] Draper.
She went in but she couldn't find any [D] paper.
All she could find was a bricklayer's [A] scraper.
Nobody knew [D] she was there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the fourth old lady was a Catholic lass.
[A] She went in just to try and skip mass.
[D] Hot feet was in sight and he pitched her hat [A] back.
And nobody knew [D] she was there.
Undead so dear, what can the [A] matter?
These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the fifth old lady was little Miss Barklett.
[A] She paid her penny and straight in she darted.
[D] What a waste of a penny, cos she only_
[Em] To them [A] nobody knew she [D] was there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [A] Saturday.
Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the sixth old lady was little Miss Murray.
[A] She went in in a heck of a hurry.
[D] When she got there it was too late to worry.
[A] And nobody knew [D] she'd been there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got [F#m] stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the last old lady was little Miss Mason.
[A] The toilets were full so she peed in the basin.
[D] That was the water that I washed my face in.
[A] Cos I didn't know she'd [D] been there.
_ Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to Saturday.
Nobody knew they [D] were there.
_ _ _ _ _ _
Now, there was a game going on here called rugby earlier on today.
Rugby players in England, before, during and after a practice or a [F] game, like to drink [G] lots of beer, which puts them in a very sing-song type mood.
And so they take all [A] these old English [F#] songs and they write parodies of them, most of them unsingable in present company.
They're known as rugby ballads, body ballads.
But what happened was some of these songs were again rescued by [D] the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of Scotland in [C#] England
and now sung around the campfires in a cleaned [D] up version.
And this one became very popular.
In fact, I first heard this after I left Scotland.
I heard it very popular in Newfoundland.
It's by a group called the Sons of Aaron, with Bob Donovan in it.
Yes.
_ So the chorus now is this, if you want to join in.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the lavatory.
[D] They were there from Sunday to Saturday.
Nobody knew they [D] were there.
Do you know any verses of it?
Ah, you know the original ones, is that it?
Yeah.
The ones unsingable in your_ That's right. _
Now the first old lady was Jennifer Pym.
[A] She went in on a personal whim.
And somehow got stuck between the bowl and the rim.
And [A] nobody knew she was [D] there.
Sing along now.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [A] Saturday.
[F#m] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the second old lady was little Miss [A] Humphrey.
She sat down and she made herself [D] comfy.
Tried to get up but could not get her bum [A] free.
Nobody knew she [D] was there.
Undead so _ dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the third old lady was little Miss [A] Draper.
She went in but she couldn't find any [D] paper.
All she could find was a bricklayer's [A] scraper.
Nobody knew [D] she was there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the fourth old lady was a Catholic lass.
[A] She went in just to try and skip mass.
[D] Hot feet was in sight and he pitched her hat [A] back.
And nobody knew [D] she was there.
Undead so dear, what can the [A] matter?
These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the fifth old lady was little Miss Barklett.
[A] She paid her penny and straight in she darted.
[D] What a waste of a penny, cos she only_
[Em] To them [A] nobody knew she [D] was there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [A] Saturday.
Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the sixth old lady was little Miss Murray.
[A] She went in in a heck of a hurry.
[D] When she got there it was too late to worry.
[A] And nobody knew [D] she'd been there.
Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got [F#m] stuck in the [D] lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to [Em] Saturday.
[A] Nobody knew [D] they were there.
Now the last old lady was little Miss Mason.
[A] The toilets were full so she peed in the basin.
[D] That was the water that I washed my face in.
[A] Cos I didn't know she'd [D] been there.
_ Undead so dear, what can the matter?
[A] These seven old ladies got stuck in the lavatory.
They were there from Sunday to Saturday.
Nobody knew they [D] were there.
_ _ _ _ _ _