(Clip begins with instrumental marching music and eventually makes its way into the key of Eb)
Capo I
D A7
Seventy-six trombones led the big parade
A7 D
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand.
D D7 G
They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuo-
E7 A7
Sos, the cream of ev'ry famous band.
D A7
Seventy-six trombones caught the morning sun
A7 D
With a hundred and ten cornets right behind
D D7
There were more than a thousand reeds
G E7
Springing up like weeds
A7 D
There were horns of ev'ry shape and kind.
G D
There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons
D D7 G
Thundering, thundering all along the way.
G D
Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons,
A7 D7
Each bassoon having its big, fat say!
G D
There were fifty mounted cannon in the battery
D D7 G
Thundering, thundering louder than before
G A7
Clarinets of ev'ry size and trumpeters who'd improvise
D D7 G
A full octave higher than the score!