PARTS: Soprano Alto Tenor Bass All
KEY: bold = first beat of bar ^ = rest Underline = triplet backing vocal = [text]
073 - In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town
It’s only a shan-ty in old shan-ty town,
the roof is so slan-ty it touches the ground,
but my tum-bled-down shack,
by an old rail-road track,
like a mil-lion-aire’s man-sion,
is cal-ling me back.
I’d give up a pal-ace, if I were a king,
it’s more than a pal-ace, it’s my ev-‘ry thing.
There’s a queen wait-ing there
with a sil-very-crown,
In a Shan-ty In Old Shan-ty Town.
[8 x Bar Instrumental]
but my tum-bled-down shack,
by an old rail-road track,
like a mil-lion-aire’s man-sion,
is cal-ling me back.
I’d give up a pal-ace, if I were a king,
it’s more than a pal-ace, it’s my ev-‘ry thing.
There’s a queen wait-ing there
with a sil-very-crown,
In a Shan-ty In Old Shan-ty Town.
A popular song written by Ira Schuster and Jack Little with lyrics by Joe Young, published in 1932