Moving Day
Lyrics by Andrew B. Sterling
Key: C
Music by Harry Von Tilzer
Copyright 1906

File Created May 5, 2021

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Verse 1:

C
Landlord said this morning to me
G               C
Gimme your key, this flat ain't free
I can't get no rent out of you
G            G7              C
Pack up your things and skid-doo"

  C7    F
I said, "Wait until ma Bill comes home,
C
He's ma honey from the honeycomb
G                         G7
He'll have money cause he told me so
     C         C7
This morn-ing."

F
Landlord said, "I gave you lots of show.
C
Wants ma rooms or else I wants ma dough,
     D                          D7
I'll wait for Bill, if he don't pay,
            GGdimG7
Why out you go." Because its

Chorus:

C      C7   F
Moving day, moving day
G                       G7
Rip that carpet up from off the floor
C                        G7
Take your oil stove, and there's the door

     C      C7
It's moving day,
F                               Gbdim
Pack your folding bed and get a-way

          C
If you've spent every cent,
You can live out in a tent,
     G               G7       C
It's moo-oo, oo, oo, oo,oving day.

Verse 2:

C
Bill came home all covered with snow
G7              C
I said, "Hello, gimme some dough
Here's the landlord waiting for rent."
G7                        C     C7
Bill said, "I ain't got a cent."

F
"Here's two chickens I brought home for stew
C
Landlord take them for the rent that's due"
G                          G7                   C        C7
Landlord said, "Ma chicken coop was robbed this morning."

F
“Two black hens are missing from my coop
C
They're the ones, you just brought in for soup
    D                     D7
Get busy now and put your things
            GGdimG7
Down on the stoop”
Because it's

Chorus Repeat:

C


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