Key: C
Introduction: Cm G7(9) Cm6 G7 Cm Cm6 G7
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Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cheree!
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A sweep is as lucky, as lucky can be.
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Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cheroo!
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Good luck will rub off when I shake 'ands with you,
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Or blow me a kiss and that's lucky too.
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Now as the ladder of life 'as been strung,
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you may think a sweep's on the bottom most rung.
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Though I spends me time in the ashes and smoke,
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in this 'ole wide world there's no happier bloke.
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Up where the smoke is all billered and curled,
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'Tween pavement and stars,
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is the chimney sweep world.
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When there's 'ardly no day nor hardly no night,
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there's things'alf in shadow and 'alfway in light,
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On the rooftops of London, coo, what a sight!
2. Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cheree!