title: Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-Der-é
key: Musical
harp type: Chromatic
genre: Eb
skill: Any

TA-RA-RA BOOM-DER-É
By: Henry J. Sayers
Music hall song
Key: Eb
Time: 2/4
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A smart and styl-ish girl you see,
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Belle of good so-ci-e-ty
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Not too strict but rath-er free
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Yet as right as right can be!
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Nev-er for-ward, nev-er bold
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Not too hot, and not too cold
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But the ver-y thing, I’m told,
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That in your arms you’d like to hold.
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Ta-ra-ra boom-der-e
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Ta-ra-ra boom-der-e
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Ta-ra-ra boom-der-e
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Ta-ra-ra boom-der-e
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Ta-ra-ra boom-der-e
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Ta-ra-ra boom-der-e
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Ta-ra-ra boom-der-e
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Ta-ra-ra boom-der-e
I’m not extravagantly shy
And when a nice young man is nigh
For his heart I have a try]
And faint away with tearful cry!
When the good young man in haste
Will support me round the waist
I don’t come to while thus embraced
Till of my lips he steals a taste!
I’m a timid flow’r of innocence
Pa says that that I have no sense,
I’m one eternal big expense
But men say that I’m just “immense!”
Ere my verses I conclude
I’d like it known and understood
Though free as air, I’m never rude
I’m not too bad and not too good!