PARTS: Soprano Alto Tenor Bass All
KEY: bold = first beat of bar ^ = rest Underline = triplet backing vocal = [text]
065 - Chattanooga Choo Choo
Verse 1
Pardon me boy,
is that the Chat-ta-noo-ga Choo Choo?
Track twenty-nine,
^ boy can ya gim-me a shine.
I- can af-ford,
to board the Chat-ta-noo-ga Choo Choo,
I’ve got my fare
^ and just a tri-fle to spare.
Bridge
You leave the (syncopate early) Penn-syl-van-ia Sta-tion
‘bout a quar-ter to four,
(syncopate early) read a mag-a-zine,
and then your in Bal-ti-more;
(syncopate early)din-ner in the din-er
noth-in’ could be fin-er –
than to have your ham n’ eggs
in (syncopate)Car-o-lin-a.
(syncopate early) When you hear the whist-le blow-in’
eight to the bar,
(syncopate early) then you know that Ten-nes-see
is not ver-y far –
(syncopate early) shov-el all the coal in,
(syncopate early) got-ta keep it roll-in’
woo, woo Chat-ta-noo-ga
the-re you are.
Verse 2
There’s gon-na be
a cer-tain par-ty at the sta-tion,
sat-in and (sing vowel, short ‘ss’) lace,
^ I used to call ‘fun-ny face’.
She’s gon-na cry,
^ un-til I tell her that I’ll nev-er roam,
so Chat-ta noo-ga Choo Choo
won’t you ‘Choo Choo’ me home.
[Tag]
So, Chat-ta-noo-ga Choo Choo
won’t you ‘Choo Choo’ me home!
A big-band/swing song recorded by Glenn Miller and his orchestra that was featured in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade, words Mac Gordon music Harry Warren