Top Forty News Weather And Sports ukulele

Top Forty News Weather And Sports

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Top Forty News Weather And Sports:Mark
Dinning.
#17 in Australia and #81 on BB hot 100
on MGM Records in 1961.
(At the time, hailed as the best novelty
 song in years.)

INTRO: D A D A
 D       A                 D       
(Top 40, news, weather and sports..Top 40, 
 A                 D       A
 news, weather and sports.)

#1.
     D
Last night I was getting my homework up and 
                    A
listening to my radio.
A
I was kinda sleepy but was writing my theme while 
                    D
I was digging my DJ Show.
D
It was Top 40, news, weather and sports and I was 
                   G
writing on Current Affairs.
G                             D
Next morning when I got up to read my theme, you 
            A                      D
should have seen all the classroom stare.

#2.
            A                               D
Cause I had Lumumba doing the Rhumba to the tune 
            
of the Blue Tango.
      A                            D
I had Abominable Snowman hunters a-bringing in Fidel 

Castro.

#3.
Db    D                                        G
I had President Ike, up at the mike, singing, 'Are You 

Lonesome Tonight.'
          E                                Gbm
I had the U.N. lost in a snow out west and Khrushchev 
                F        E
squealing, 'You talk too much!'

#2.
    A
And there was Brenda Lee running track for State and 
          D                Bm      A
there was Kennedy giving a station break.
        G                                     A
And the guys down at Canaveral were shoveling snow..
                 D               A           D
hollering, let's go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa..go, whoa, 
      A           D               A                 D
whoa, whoa, whoa..go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa..whoa, whoa!!

CHORUS:
 D       A                 D       
(Top 40, news, weather and sports..Top 40, 
 A                 D       
 news, weather and sports.)

#3.
      A
And I had Mickey Mantle riding on a camel through the 
D
rains down in Death Valley.
      A                                 D
I had Mr. Nehru, at the weather bureau, giving the humidity.
          G                               D
And I had Lolita, humming mighty sweet-a, New Orleans 

off key, key, key.
E                                 A         E           D
Rockefeller, singing a cappella, 'Save that little 'ole dance 
    A
for me.

OUTRO:
 D       A                 D       
(Top 40, news, weather and sports..Top 40, 
 A                 D       
 news, weather and sports.)

 D       A                 D       
(Top 40, news, weather and sports..Top 40, 
 A                 D       
 news, weather and sports.)...(Fade.)


A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.

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