The Morse Code Song

 
                    Huw Williams
 
  A silly song of the kind that made the Huw and Tony set a lot
 of fun. Recorded on the live Unplugged and Unrelated.
  
 Apart from the C/G/A/D7 sequences all the rest is best
 played using these shapes, with a little alternating
 base pick on the D7 if you're feeling elaborate.  
 
  A   [5 7 7 6 5 5]   G [3 5 5 4 3 3]
 D7  [x 5 4 5 3 x] and [5 x 4 5 3 x]
 
 [intro]
 D7 [pause ...]
               Oh ...
 
 G                     A
 Alexander Graham Bell he was a clever sod you can tell
 D7
 If it wan't for him we wouldn't be at home
            G                 D7
 ringing up people on the telephone
 G                                A
 Old Marconi never had a phone he lived life quite bare
 D7
 But he'd sit and gloat as he would float 
                     G
 Signals through the air
 C
 But the greatest and the best
 G
 Ahead of all the road
 A
 I speak of course of Samuel Morse 
 D7
 Who invented the Morse Code
 
 [chorus]
 G
 It's the greatest everyone knows
 A
 It's terrific and it goes
 D7
 Dit-dit-di-dah-dah
                    G
 Dit-dit-di-dit-dit-daaaah
 G
 Oh what a beat oh what a rythm 
 A
 Don't ring 'em up just go give 'em
 D7
 Dit-dit-di-dah-dah 
                        G
 Dit-dit-di-dit-dit-daaaah
 C
 Gonna rap gonna tap gonna fill out the air
 G
 Rap those signals everywhere
 A
 I'm gonna get my satisfaction
 D7
 Developing my wrist action
 G
 Do it in blips, do it in flashes
 A
 fill me full of those dots and dashes
 D7
 Dit-dit-di-dah-dah 
                        G
 Dit-dit-di-dit-dit-daaaah
 
 G                               A
 You can be rude or crude no-one ever hears your voice
 D7
 You can tell them what-for 
               G
 with a dot or dash
                  D7
 You're never too spoilt for choice
 G
 You can be thoroughly objectionable
 A
 Patience you don't need
 D7
 Verbally bash 'em, just flash 'em
                          G
 And hope they don't blip read
 C                     G
 Old Sam he's the man, king of telegraphy
 A
 From Pony Express to Teletext
 D7
 He's the guy for me
 
 
 [chorus]
 G
 It's the greatest everyone knows
 A
 It's terrific and it goes
 D7
 Dit-dit-di-dah-dah
                    G
 Dit-dit-di-dit-dit-daaaah
 G
 Oh what a beat oh what a rythm 
 A
 Don't ring 'em up just go give 'em
 D7
 Dit-dit-di-dah-dah 
                        G
 Dit-dit-di-dit-dit-daaaah
 C
 Gonna rap gonna tap gonna fill out the air
 G
 Rap those signals everywhere
 A
 I'm gonna get my satisfaction
 D7
 Developing my wrist action
 G
 Do it in blips, do it in flashes
 A
 fill me full of those dots and dashes
 D7
 Dit-dit-di-dah-dah - Dit-dit-di-dah
 D7
 Dit-dit-di-dah-dah - Dit-dit-di-dah
 D7
 Dit-dit-di-dah-dah - Dit-dit-di-dah \{repeat until ...\}
                        G
 Dit-dit-di-dit-dit-daaaah