title: Goofuskey: Generalharp type: Chromaticgenre: Gskill: AnyW: Gus KahnM: Wayne King, William HaroldPhil Harris, The CarpentersKey: G-5 -5 -4 -4 -3 -5 -5 -3-4-5 -4I was born on a farm out in I-o-way-4 3 3 2 2 -1 3A flam-ing youth who was bound3 -1 2 3 2that he’d fly a-way-1* -5 -5 -4 -4I packed my grip and-3 -5 -5 -4 -3 3I grabbed my sax-o-phone-5 -5 -4 -4 -3 -5Can’t read notes, but I play-5-3 -4 -5 -4an-y-thing by ear-3 3 3 2 2 -1 3I made up tunes on the sounds3 -1 2 3 2that I used to hear-1* 2 3* -4 6 -3 4* -4 -3When I’d start to play folks used to say-1 -1* 3 -2 -2* -5 -4 3“Sounds a lit-tle Goo-fus to me”-1 2 3 3 -1 2 3Corn-fed chords ap-peal to me,1* -1* -2* -2* 1* -1*-2*I like rus-tic har-mon-y1 -1 -2 -2 1 -1 -2Hold the note and change the key,-4 6 -5 -3that’s called “Goo-fus”-1 2 3 3 -1 2 3Not ac-cord-ing to the rules1* -1* -2* -2* 1* -1* -2*that you learn at mus-ic school1 -1 -2 -2 1 -1 -2But the folks just dance like fools,-4 6 -5 -3they go “Goo-fus”-5 -5 -4 -4 -3 -5 -5 -3 -4 -5 -4Got a job but I just could-n’t keep it long-3 3 3 2 2 -1The lead-er said that I3 3 -1 2 3 2played all the mus-ic wrong-1*-5 -5 -4 -4 -3 -5 -5 -4 -3 3So I stepped out with an out-fit of my own-5 -5 -4 -4-3 -5 -5 -3 -4 -5 -4Got to-geth-er a new kind of or-ches-tree-3 3 3 2 2 -1 2And we all played just the same3 -1 2 3 2“Goo-fus” har-mon-y-1* 2 3* -4 6 -3 4* -4 -3And I must ad-mit we made a hit-1 -1* 2 -2 -2* -5 -4 3‘Goo-fus’ has been luck-y for me