Barenaked Ladies – Crazy Abcs (Guitar)

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I've endeavoured to lay it out by when Edd & Steve's lines are, [Intro] RIFF: A A G G F# F# E E D B C# D E CHORDS: D E7 A

A
Hey Steve

Hey Ed, that sounds nice, what is it? Thank you, it's a, it's an alphabet song I'm working on Oh great, a whole new alphabet, I just learned the old one

D        G      A        D
A is for aisle, B is for bdellium,

D G      D         G      E7                     A
C is for czar, and if you see him would you mind telling him?

A
Okay, hang on a second, yeah aisle, bdellium?

Yeah, aisle like a, like a theater Alright, okay and bdellium? Bdellium, it's a, it’s a gum like tree resin, it starts with a silent B And then czar? Yeah, it's uh like a Russian czar, you know everybody knows apple, ball and cat, I wanted to get into some, you know some stranger words Right, I see what you're doing

D        G      A       D
D is for djinn, E for Euphrates,

D G      D         G        E7              A
F is for fohn, but not like when I call the ladies

A
I thought phone started with a P like a Ph

No, it's F O H N, it's a, it's a kind of wind Yeah, I know what you mean by wind

D             G          A        D
G for gnarly, I for irk, H is for hour,

D     G   D     G       E7             A
J for jalapeño, good in either corn or flour, tortillas (nice rhyme)

D        G            A        D
K is for knick knack, L is for llama

D       G      D
Pramma, llama, ding, what's so strange about llama?

D
Llama, it starts with two L's

What's the second one for? No idea I know What? Loser

D        G      A         D     D G      D     G
M for mnemonic, N is for ndomo, O is for Ouija board

D         G           A             D       D G      D
P for pneumonia, pterodactyl and psychosis, Q is for qat

      E7 A
Okay, Q? Qat? What?

A
Yeah, it's uh Q A T, it's an evergreen shrub. It's a perfect scrabble word,

because it's a Q with no U, there's not many of those. You have too much time on your hands.

D        G
R is for Argyle,

A     D
No it isn't

Okay, you're right, I couldn't find a good R word

D        G       A             D
S is for Saar, a lovely German river,

D  G      D G     E7                 A
T  for tsunami, a wave that makes me quiver

D        G        A                D
U is for urn, but not like earning money,

D     G      D           G          E7                A
V for vraisemblance from French and therefore kind of funny

D     G     A           D
W for wren, wrinkly and who,

D    G   D          G      E7            A
X is for Xi'an, an ancient Chinese city, true

Ancient Chinese city, huh? My guitar player, some hotshot

D        G           A          D
Y is for yiperite, a very nasty gas,

    D         G     D      G      E7           A
and zed's the final letter and by final I mean last

A
Okay, when you say zed, for the benefit of our American friends, you really mean zee, right?

No, I mean zed, like, like Zed Zed Top Zed Zed Top? Yeah, you know the guys with the big long beards well, except the guy whose name is Beard, he has a moustache I always thought that was interesting. You done with the alphabet? No extra letters I haven't heard of? I think so This was a great help, I think with the contribution you made to world literacy Well, I'm just saying, kids I'm just saying, think outside the box a little bit Yeah, that's box with an R! Yeah, well, no box with a B A L K S like a pitcher Ah, as opposed to B A C H S Right, think outside the Bachs, get into some Rochmaninov That's Rochmaninov with a W