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Linger Longer Letty

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Four years of hard work!

This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!

Oh By Jingo!Oh By Gee-Lew Brown, Albert Von Tilzer (Acoustic)
A novelty song from the 1919 Broadway play ?Linger Longer Lettie?.

Not sure, but original might be in G. I think these chords
are easier for a novice player. You can play around with the
transpose button on the left, or capo, but it sounds best to
me starting in a sharp chord in any case. In 2/4 timing.

Capo I

Em Am
In the land of San Domingo
Em Am
Lived a girl called Oh! By Jingo
Em Am C7
Ta da da da da da da da
Em
Umpa, umpa, umpa, umpa
Em Am
From the fields and from the marshes
Em Am
Came the young and old by goshes,
Em Am C7
Ta da da da da da da da
Em
Umpa, umpa, umpa, umpa

D7 G
They all spoke with a diff'rent lingo
D7 G
But they all loved Oh! By Jingo
B Em7
And ev'ry night
A7 D7
They sang in the pale moon light...

G
Oh! By Gee, By Gosh, By Gum, By Jove
Em6 A7
Oh! By Jingo, won't you hear our love?

D7
We will build for you a hut
G
You will be our fav'rite nut
A7
We'll have a lot of little Oh! By Gollies
D7
Then we'll put them in the Follies

G
By Jingo said, By Gosh, By Gee,
C B7
By Jiminy, please don't bother me
Em
So they all went away singing
Em
Oh! By Gee, By Gosh, By Gum, By Jove, By Jingo
G D7 G
By Gee, you're the only girl for me!

Additional Lyrics:
2nd part of original

Oh By Jingo had a lover
He was always under cover
Ta da da da da da da da
Umpa, umpa, umpa, umpa

Ev'ry night she used to meet him
Oh how nice she used to treat him
Ta da da da da da da da
Umpa, umpa, umpa, umpa

D7 G
They eloped but they both were collared
And the gang stood there and hollered
B Em7
Don't raise a fuss
A7 D7
You've got to take one of us...(into Oh By Gee...)

Version from Jeeves & Wooster is same but with a
couple of rhyming phrases changed:

We will build for you a hut
You will be our fav'rite nut
We'll have a lot of little Oh By Jingoes
Pink and white just like flamingoes

and:
We will build for you a hut
You will be our fav'rite nut
We'll have a lot of little Oh By jones-es
Dress them up in clogs and clothes-es

Billy Murray had another chorus which you can find
on line, but I don't remember it offhand.
Have fun with it!