Come Josephine In My Flying Machine
Music by Fred Fisher
Key: F
Lyrics by Alfred Bryan
Copyright 1910

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File Created 11/22/2014
File Edited 12/16/2020

Verse 1:

F       C7
Oh! say!let us fly, dear,
F           C7
 where, kid? to the sky, dear
F       Bb
Oh! you  flying machine!
G7       C7
jump in, Miss Josephine

        F
Ship  a-hoy!
   C7
Oh  joy! What a feeling,
F          C7
Where, boy?In the ceiling,
F         Bb
Ho! high, hoop-la! we fly
       G7           C7
to the sky so high.

Chorus:

F
Come Josephine in my fly-ing ma-chine,
        C7
Going up she goes! Up she goes!
C7
Balance your-self like a bird on a  beam,
       F
In the air she goes, there she goes!

F         C7
Up, up, a little bit higher,
F           C7
Oh! my! the moon is on fire,

F
Come, Josephine in my flying machine,
      C7               F
Going up, all on, "good-bye!"

Verse 2:

F
One, two,
C7
now we're off, dear,
F
say you,
C7
pretty soft, dear

F    F7
Whoa!dear,
Bb
 don't hit the  moon!
G7
no, dear
C7
not yet but soon

        F
You for me,
    C7
Oh  gee! you're a  fly kid,
F
 not me,
C7
 I'm a sky kid,

F        Bb
Gee! I'm up in the air about
G7      C7
you for fair

Chorus Repeat:

End Chords:

C7F


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