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Getta Bloomin' Move-On

(Quincy jones / Don Black)

 
[Transcribed by Steve Dix & Kevin Bignell with additional information and corrections by meJ]


 
               |F   |Bb    |F    |Bb    |F    |Bb    |
               This is the self-preservation Society,  
 
               |F   |Bb    |F    |Bb    |F    |Bb    |
               The self-preservation society
 
               |F                         |
               Put on your almond rocks & 
 
               |C                      |
               Daisy roots,  brush your Hampstead Heath
 
                             |F
               And wear your whistle and flute.  
 
               |Dm                     |Bb             
               Lots of lah-de-dahs and cockneys here,  
 
               |G             |Eb       |C      
               Look alive and get out of here.
 
               |F                       |A
               Get your skates on mate; get your skates on mate,
 
               |D7                                  |G
               No bib around your Gregory Peck today, eh?
 
               |Bb              Am            |Gm
               Drop your plates of meat right upon the seat
 
               |F   |Bb    |F    |Bb    |F    |Bb    |
               This is the self-preservation Society,  
 
               |F   |Bb    |F    |Bb    |F    |Bb    |
               The self-preservation society
 
 

Translation of cockney rhyming slang

 

 

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