What A Mouth What A North And South Chords & Lyrics - Tommy Steele
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Capo on 1 for correct key = G#. Ps north and south is cockney rhyming slang for mouth,
'race' is short for 'boatrace' cockney rhyming slang for face, 'corfs' = coughs.
Intro = [G] [D] [C] [G] [G] [D] [G]
[VERSE 1]
[G]Jimmy Bean was a funny lookin' fellah
If he had another mouth he'd [A]look much sweller
But the "race" queered him from winning a beauty [D]show
[G]It was like a steamboat funnel
Or a railway arch or the [A]Blackwall Tunnel
When you can't see Jim when he opens his mouth you'll [D]know
[D]And as poor Jim goes walkin' about
[D]You can hear the kids all 'ollerin' [D7]out
[CHORUS]
What a [G]mouth what a mouth what a north and south
Blimey what a [D]mouth he's [G]got
Now when [A]he was a baby well oh Gawd luv 'er
His poor old muvver used to [D]feed him with a shovel
What a [G]gap poor chap he's never been known to [D]laugh
[G]If he [D]did it's a [C]penny to a [G]quid that his [C]face would [D]fall in [G]'alf
[G] [D] [C] [G] [G] [D] [G]
[VERSE 2]
[G]Mouth so large oh Lord oh lummey
He can whisper in his own ear [A]ain't it funny
And to quench his thirst now he's gotta take a drink o' [D]mine
He [G]got so drunk one foggy morn
He lay in the road and [A]started to yawn
And a poor old man was delivering coals close [D]by
[D]And as he went to shoot the load
[D]He saw Jim's mouth out in the [D7]road
[CHORUS]
What a [G]mouth what a mouth what a north and south
Blimey what a [D]mouth he's [G]got
Now the [A]poor old man bein' a short sighted fellah
When he saw Jim's mouth he [D]took it for the cellar
And he [G]shot the lot right into his mouth no [D]joke
[G]Jim poor [D]soul's got a [C]tummy full of [G]coal and he [C]'corfs' up [D]lumps of [G]coke
[G] [D] [C] [G] [G] [D] [G]
Repeat Chorus
What a [G]mouth what a mouth what a north and south
Blimey what a [D]mouth he's [G]got
Now the [A]poor old man bein' a short sighted fellah
When he saw Jim's mouth he [D]took it for the cellar
And he [G]shot the lot right into his mouth no [D]joke
[G]Jim poor [D]soul's got a [C]tummy full of [G]coal and he [C]'corfs' up [D]lumps of [G]coke
[G] [D] [C] [G] [G] [D] [G]
[G] [D] [C] [G] [G] [D] [G]
'race' is short for 'boatrace' cockney rhyming slang for face, 'corfs' = coughs.
Intro = [G] [D] [C] [G] [G] [D] [G]
[VERSE 1]
[G]Jimmy Bean was a funny lookin' fellah
If he had another mouth he'd [A]look much sweller
But the "race" queered him from winning a beauty [D]show
[G]It was like a steamboat funnel
Or a railway arch or the [A]Blackwall Tunnel
When you can't see Jim when he opens his mouth you'll [D]know
[D]And as poor Jim goes walkin' about
[D]You can hear the kids all 'ollerin' [D7]out
[CHORUS]
What a [G]mouth what a mouth what a north and south
Blimey what a [D]mouth he's [G]got
Now when [A]he was a baby well oh Gawd luv 'er
His poor old muvver used to [D]feed him with a shovel
What a [G]gap poor chap he's never been known to [D]laugh
[G]If he [D]did it's a [C]penny to a [G]quid that his [C]face would [D]fall in [G]'alf
[G] [D] [C] [G] [G] [D] [G]
[VERSE 2]
[G]Mouth so large oh Lord oh lummey
He can whisper in his own ear [A]ain't it funny
And to quench his thirst now he's gotta take a drink o' [D]mine
He [G]got so drunk one foggy morn
He lay in the road and [A]started to yawn
And a poor old man was delivering coals close [D]by
[D]And as he went to shoot the load
[D]He saw Jim's mouth out in the [D7]road
[CHORUS]
What a [G]mouth what a mouth what a north and south
Blimey what a [D]mouth he's [G]got
Now the [A]poor old man bein' a short sighted fellah
When he saw Jim's mouth he [D]took it for the cellar
And he [G]shot the lot right into his mouth no [D]joke
[G]Jim poor [D]soul's got a [C]tummy full of [G]coal and he [C]'corfs' up [D]lumps of [G]coke
[G] [D] [C] [G] [G] [D] [G]
Repeat Chorus
What a [G]mouth what a mouth what a north and south
Blimey what a [D]mouth he's [G]got
Now the [A]poor old man bein' a short sighted fellah
When he saw Jim's mouth he [D]took it for the cellar
And he [G]shot the lot right into his mouth no [D]joke
[G]Jim poor [D]soul's got a [C]tummy full of [G]coal and he [C]'corfs' up [D]lumps of [G]coke
[G] [D] [C] [G] [G] [D] [G]
[G] [D] [C] [G] [G] [D] [G]
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