Chords - v1

Monkey and the Engineer

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Once upon a time there was an engineer

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who drove a locomotive both far and near

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Accompanied by a monkey who would sit on a stool

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watching everything the engineer would do

One day the engineer wanted a bite to eat

he left the monkey sittin' on the driver's seat

monkey pulled the throttle, locomotive jumped the gun

and did ninety miles an hour down the main line run

Chorus:

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Big Locomotive, right on time

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big locomotive coming down the line

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big locomotive number ninety nine

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left the engineer with a worried mind (Intro lick)

Verse 2:

The Engineer called up the dispatcher on the phone

to tell him all about his locomotive was gone

dispatcher on the wire, switch operator to right

'cause the monkey's got the main line sewed up tight

Switch operator got the message in time

said there's a northbound livin' on the same main line

Open up the switch I'm gonna let him through the hole

cause the monkey's got the locomotive under control

(Chorus)(Intro lick)