Rudolph the red nosed reindeer - longer version

This version has the intro from the original version from the 1940s, plus some verses added for Bing and Judy in 1950: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOPL-zSJGHg

 I also added the reprises to the lines used in the kids version (eg like Pinocchio!).

Enjoy and may all your Christmases be bright.


        F         Em         Dm           C
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen
F         Em        Dm          C
Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen
Am           Dm
But do you recall
         D7                 G7
The most famous reindeer of all?

Verse 1:
C
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer (reindeer)
                 G
Had a very shiny nose (like a light bulb)
G
And if you ever saw it (saw it)
                      C
You would even say it glows (like a flash light)
C
All of the other reindeer (reindeer)
                           G
Used to laugh and call him names (like Pinocchio)
G
They never let poor Rudolph (Rudolph)
                     C
Join in any reindeer games (like Monopoly)

Bridge:
F              Em
Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Dm7   G       C
Santa came to say:(Ho Ho Ho)
G
"Rudolph with your nose so bright
D7                 G7
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
C
Then how the reindeer loved him. (loved him)
                         G
As they shouted out with glee: (yippee)
G
"Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer (reindeer)
                  C
You'll go down in history" (like Columbus)


Verse 2:
C
Rudolph has got his red nose
                        G
in the Reindeer Hall of Fame.
G
Rudolph the red nosed-baby
                       C
of the little reindeer days!

Rudolph the North-Pole big-shot
                        G
rides around in Santa's sleigh,
G
Wearing a green fedora -
                     C
smokin' a cigar all day!

Bridge:
F              C
'Cos one foggy Christmas Eve
F             C
Santa came to say:
G
"Rudolph with your nose so bright
D7                 G7
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
C
Then how the reindeer loved him.
                         G
As they shouted out with glee:
G
"Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
                  C
You'll go down in history"

Verse 3 (shorter):
C
This story has a moral
                   G
anyone can plainly see:
G
Just keep your red nose a-gleamin'
                             C
(and) You'll go down in history

Outtro:
       F         Em     Dm       C
If you keep your nose a red, red rose
       F         Em       Dm        C
If you keep your beak all pink and sleek
           F         Em   Dm        C
and if you keep your snoz maroon because
G                              C
You'll go down in his--- to--- ry

So Long, Leonard

With the passing of the great Leonard Cohen. I wanted to mark it here. So Long Marianne was just one of his many songs, but since he kept tweaking it, I have just heard some new verses. Which is like finding some chocolate after you thought it was all gone. Now that he is gone, all we will have is scraps and fragments. So here are the new (to me) opening lines.

Here comes the morning boat,
Here comes the evening train,
Here comes Marianne now,
To wave goodbye again.

He performed them in 1988 and 1993 when in Oslo so it is likely Marianne was in the audience.

More on variations of the song.

http://cohencentric.com/the-marianne-variations-leonard-cohens-recurring-revisions-of-so-long-marianne/

C
Here comes the morning boat,
Dm
Here comes the evening train,
Bb                 F
Here comes Marianne now,
Am                        G
To wave goodbye again.


     C                               Dm      
Come over to the window,  my little darling
F                              C
I'd like to try to read your palm
A#                                    F
I used to think I was some sort of gypsy boy
Am                         G   Gsus4 G G7
   before I let you take me home


[Chorus]

    C                 Am
Now so long, Marianne,    It's time that we began
    G   Gsus4     G  G7     G Gsus4       G      G7     C        Csus4    
to laugh      and cry   and cry      and laugh about it all again


          C                  Dm  
Well you know that I love to live with you
F                                C
 but you make me forget so very much
A#                          F
 I forget to pray for the angels
             Am                       G  sus4 G G7
and then the angels forget to pray for us


[Chorus]

    C               Dm
We met when we were almost young
F                         C
 deep in the green lilac park
A#                                F
 You held on to me like I was a crucifix
Am                                 G   Gsus4 G G7
   as we went kneeling through the dark


[Chorus]

      C                                 Dm
Your letters they all say that you're beside me now
F                        C
 then why do I feel so alone
A#                                 F
 I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web
    Am                      G  Gsus4 G G7
is fastening my ankle to a stone

[Chorus]

     C              Dm
For now I need your hidden love
F                         C
 I'm cold as a new razor blade
A#                                F
 You left when I told you I was curious
Am                         G   Gsus4 G G7
   I never said that I was brave

[Chorus]

     C                     Dm
Oh, you are really such a pretty one
F                                   C
 I see you've gone and changed your name again
A#                              F
 And just when I climbed this whole mountainside
    Am                     G  Gsus4 G G7
to wash my eyelids in the rain

[Chorus]

   C                    Dm
Oh, your eyes, well, I forget your eyes
F                              C
 your body's at home in every sea
A#                             F
 How come you gave away your news to everyone
Am                              G Gsus4 G G7
   that you said was a secret to me



You can transpose the key here: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/l/leonard_cohen/so_long_marianne_ver2_crd.htm

Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside

I moved to the UK and to beside the silvery sea in the last year. So I found myself singing this in my head a lot, so I found the chords and the verses too, since most of us only know the chorus. It was a big hit in about 1909: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyFniXdqsQQ

D  Dm6 (2222)
Everyone delights to spend their summer's holiday
A7 D      
Down beside the side of the silvery sea
D
I'm no exception to the rule
Dm6
In fact, if I'd me way
A7       D
I'd reside by the side of the silvery sea.

A  A7
But when you're just the common or garden
D
Smith or Jones or Brown
A7
At bus'ness up in town
D
You've got to settle down.
A
You save your money all the year till
D Dm6
summer comes around
A
Then away you go
A7
To a spot you know
E7 A7  
Where the cockle shells are found.

[CHORUS]

2110   D A
Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside
Dm6 G B7
I do like to be beside the sea!
  A  A7 B7 2320  2330
I do like to stroll upon the Prom, Prom, Prom!
E7
Where the brass bands play:
A7
"Tiddely-om-pom-pom!"
D A
So just let me be beside the seaside
Dm6 G  B7
I'll be beside myself with glee
            Em Db7
And there's lots of girls besides,
2424 B7
I should like to be beside
E7 A7
Beside the seaside!
D
Beside the sea!  A7 D  2110


D  Dm6 (2222)
Timothy went to Blackpool for the day last Eastertide
A7 D      
To see what he could see by the side of the sea
D  Dm6 (2222)
Soon he reached the station there, the first thing he espied
A7       D
Was the Wine Lodge door, stood open invitingly
A  A7
To quench his thirst, he toddled inside,
D
and called out for a ‘wine'
A
Which grew to eight or nine
D Dm6
Till his nose began to shine
A
Said he “What people see in the sea
D
I'm sure I fail to see”
A
So he caught the train
A7
back home again
E7  A7
Then to his wife said he.

[CHORUS]

D
William Sykes the burglar,
Dm6    
He'd been out to work one night
A7 D      
Filled his bag with jewels, cash, and plate.
D  Dm6 (2222)
Constable Brown felt quite surprised when William hove in sight
A7       D
Said he: "The hours you're keeping are far too late."
A  A7
So he grabbed him by the collar and lodged him
D
safe and sound in jail
A
Next morning looking pale
D
Bill told a tearful tale.
A
The judge said, "For a couple of months
D
I'm sending you away!"
A
Said Bill: "How kind!
A7
Well! If you don't mind
E7 A7
Where I spend my holiday!"

[CHORUS]