C F C F C F C F White honey get it from the candy man C F C F C F C F White honey yeah any time I think I can. G C You wake up early in the morning G C A-playing on the clarinet G C Whole town down when the man comes around F G And no one pays their rent It's all spent on C F C F C F C F White honey get it from the candy man C F C F C F C F White honey yeah any time I think I can. G C She's come and laid on a sample G C A little sweet white honey bee G C Tastes so good that the whole town stood F G And stared and looked at me They all see the C F C F C F C F White honey get it from the candy man C F C F C F C F White honey eee any time I think I can.
C'mon and (scat to chorus and the chords as in intro) sax break and repeat C G F G as in intro G C But now I ain't wanna criticise G C But let me tell you what I found G C Since they took away the record machine F G White honey don't come around. Get down! C F C F C F C F White honey get it from the candy man Oh oh oh oh oh C F C F C F C F white honey-ee any time I think I can C F C F Said honey what you doing what you doing what you doing C F C F What you're doing downtown tell me baby. C F C F Honey what you do what you do what you doing C F C F You're trying to make me look like a clown. C F C F I said hit white honey when the chips are down C F C F I'm gonna taste white honey when ain't no one around C F C F C F I said honey honey honey honey honey honey honey honey yeah C F C F Wah wah
Intro G CG (4 times VERSE G CG G CG Well I ain't got no worry I ain't in no hurry You better tell your mother, That you're a real soul brother Hey hey!
I have to say it's all right About five past midnight And we don't stop a-rollin' Until the floor board cave in.
BRIDGE C G Yeah I feel like I've been a-living to die C G D But when that rhythm play I don't know how to cry.
CHORUS G CG G CG I got my soul shoes I got my soul shoes G CG G D I got my soul shoes I got my soul shoes on my feet.
(Instrumental break)
BRIDGE If you wanna leave me go dance with another guy If you wanna grieve me baby just set my soul to die
(Instrumental chorus)
VERSE Yeah the place is buzzin, please don't let the fuzz in. You better tell your mother, that you're a real soul brother.
BRIDGE Oh yeah I said I feel like I've been living to die But when that rhythm play I don't know how to cry
G C G C I've got a lady doctor She cure da pain for free G C Bb F G I've got a lady doctor Oh there ain't nothing wrong with me. G C G C I went in with a heart burn into the surgery To my surprise two pretty eyes was running up and down me. Said now be a patient patient stretch right out on that couch Help yourself to the pills cure your ills Bb F G I'm never gonna square it on out.
REPEAT CHORUS
Well all the cats said go see her it's only just down the road You go in with pneumonia come out with just a heavy cold She won't give you no jargon no medical how-do-you-do Well just get right down under that stethoscope Baby let that lady mess on with you.
REPEATR CHORUS (then instrumental chorus)
REPEAT CHORUS (twice, sung up an octave)
Ain't nothing wrong with Ain't nothing wrong with me Bb F Bb F C Bb F G Ooh ooh ooh ooh lady doctor yeah.
D A Manhattan baby with a sing song voice G D she got her place in the human zoo D A I went to living on the boulevard G A now that the revolution's due G A She said I've been around from town to town G A and I learned to love and hate G A But time don't change not a unique game, G A D they just keep herding through that gate
CHORUS D A And do the New York shuffle, baby New York scuffle, G D Going to stay awake all night D A Do the New York shuffle, baby New York scuffle, G A D D A D Get yourself uptight, get uptight
Stick around kids you're going to see some action better shoot them in the street Grab a gun before the police come, Don't tell me you're too sweet Down in the alley they are hitting harder Not as blown as a ball can be They're burnin flags here and just in drag here It sure is a sight to see
REPEAT CHORUS
BRIDGE Bm E Bm E Mister Mayor give the key, let me lock you up Bm E G A Throw that key down the deepest subway in New York, New York
A Bm A D Everybody just looks ugly now information don't compute A Bm I draw a blank every time I think E A the football crowd is going to give me a boot
CHORUS D A E And Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead G It don't matter what they say G A You've got to use your own head some day D A E (intro chords) Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead Yeah it's dead
The ultraviolet light hurts me so it used to be my friend I used to know a good place to go but now it's nothing like it was then
CHORUS (WORD VARIATION) And Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead It don't matter what they say I'm going to the funeral Sunday Saturday night is dead Saturday night is dead Yeah it's dead
BRIDGE A G A G It must have been murder it ain't no accident A Oh no it means nothing to me G The clock goes tick tick tick in my head D Saturday is dead Saturday is dead (solo over A and Bm)
A Bm A D I look inside to find a place to hide but there ain't no place I know A Bm A It's just as well that I'm stupified it makes it easy G E D It makes it easy to deliver the fatal blow (Intro chords) Deliver deliver deliver
A D A D I been doing my homework now for a long long time A D A D And everything that I look for I know I will one day find E D E D I'm a fool so I'm told I get left in the cold E D A Cause I will search the world for that fool's gold, D A D A fool's gold
Oh the world may be full of girls with their charms on show But the one that I seek will have much more than any I know People say heaven knows see what comes I suppose But I will search the world for that fool's gold, fool's gold E A D Huh I eye eye eye eye eye eye eye E A D E A D I eye eye eye eye eye eye eye Oh yeah
Instrumental verse (A D A D A D A D A D)then Oh E D E D People say heaven knows heaven knows heaven knows see what comes I suppose E D A But I will search the world for that fool's gold (sax) D A D A Oh yeah fool's gold oh ho yeah fool's gold D A D Fool's gold fool's gold fool's gold A D A D (Just A and D to the end) Fool's gold fool's gold fool's gold fool's gold Keep searching in the mountains in the valleys, In the deep blue sea I will search I will search I will search for fool's gold Go oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh-acap
A E You want me be someone better A E I just wanna monkey 'round yeah A E You want me to write you a letter A E A E But the words just won't come the right way A E B My pen won't listen to a thing that I say
E A E A E A E A Silly thing hey hey silly thing hey hey A B7 E A Well it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing A B7 E A E A E A E B7 A Silly thing hey hey yeah hey hey.
Maybe you're getting sloppy Under the midday sun oh yeah. You come on like a carbon copy But I just wanna hang to the way you live. Don't you want the love I got to give
Silly thing hey hey silly thing hey hey Well it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing Silly thing hey hey yeah hey hey.
Sax solo
A E A E Well I just wanna hang to the way you live. A E B Don't you want the love I got to give
Silly thing hey hey silly thing hey hey Well it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing Silly thing hey hey yeah hey hey. I said you don't-a mean a thing if you ain't got that swing Silly thing hey hey repeat and fade