Misc Musicals – The Mikado - A Wandering Minstrel I (Guitar Solo)

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[Intro] D G7 C [Chorus]
  F
A wandering minstrel I —

           C
A thing of shreds and patches,
Of ballads, songs and snatches,
    F      G    C
And dreamy lullaby!

   F
My catalogue is long,

              C
Through every passion ranging,
And to your humours changing
  F              Bb Bbm   F
I tune my supple song!

            C    F
I tune my supple song!
[Verse 1]
Bb              F
Are you in sentimental mood?

     Bb   F    Bb
I'll sigh with you,

Eb  D
Oh, sorrow!

Bb                   F      F7
On maiden's coldness do you brood?

     Bb F   Bb
I'll do so, too —

Eb  D          Gm    Eb
Oh, sorrow, sorrow!

                        Ab
I'll charm your willing ears

                      Eb
With songs of lovers' fears,

                  Bb
While sympathetic tears

   Eb       Bb
My cheeks bedew —

Cm  D          Gm
Oh, sorrow, sorrow!
Bb [Verse 2]
       Eb
But if patriotic sentiment is wanted,

                               Fm
I've patriotic ballads cut and dried;
For where'er our country's banner may be planted,
    Bb                      Eb
All other local banners are defied!

    G                          D
Our warriors, in serried ranks assembled,

      G                                  D
Never quail — or they conceal it if they do —

      C                                 Eb
And I shouldn't be surprised if nations trembled

  Ab              Eb                    Eb Bb Eb
Before the mighty troops, the troops of Ti-ti-pu!
C [Verse 3] And if you call for a song of the sea,
      G                 C
We'll heave the capstan round,
With a yeo heave ho, for the wind is free,
    G
Her anchor's a-trip and her helm's a-lee,

   C           D        G
Hurrah for the homeward bound!
Yeo-ho — heave ho —
   C           D        G
Hurrah for the homeward bound!

   Gm             A
To lay aloft in a howling breeze

    F                   G
May tickle a landsman's taste,

        F               C
But the happiest hour a sailor sees

   F
Is when he's down

      C
At an inland town,

         F     D7     G7         G
With his Nancy on his knees, yeo ho!

        C   G7         C
And his arm around her waist!

     Gm                A
Then man the capstan — off we go,

       Dm                G
As the fiddler swings us round,

       F
With a yeo heave ho,

      C
And a rum below,

    F
Yeo-ho, heave ho,

    C
Yeo-ho, heave ho.

    F        D7        G7      G
Yeo-ho heave ho, heave ho, Yeo-ho!

      C         G7      C
Heave ho, heave ho, yeo-ho!
[Chorus]
  F
A wandering minstrel I —

           C
A thing of shreds and patches,
Of ballads, songs and snatches,
    F      Bb   Bbm F
And dreamy lullaby!

    Dm     C C6 Cm F6 C
And dreamy lu-lullaby!

C    F
Lullaby