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Wake the Town and Tell the People
Words & Music by Sammy Gallop & Jerry Livingston
Recorded by Les Baxter, 1955 (#5)
D A7 G D G/B D
Wake the town and tell the people,
D DM7 D6 Em7 G/B A7
Sing it to the moon above;
A7 A7sus4 A7 Em G/B A7
Wake the town and tell the people,
A7 G/B A7 D
Tell them that we're so in love.
D A7 G D G/B D
Let's begin the cel - e - bra - tion;
D DM7 D6 Em7 G/B A7
Let's declare a hol - i - day.
A7 A7sus4 A7 Em G/B A7
Send the wed - ding in - vi - ta - tion
A7 G/B A7 D
To the neighbors right away.
Bridge:
D DM7 D7 G G/F# Em7
When you are close to me
G/B A7 Em G D
And my heart is dancing with delight,
D DM7 D7 E7 Bm7-5 E7
I want the world to see
G/B A7sus4 A7 Em7 A7
Heaven in my arms tonight.
D A7 G D G/B D
Shout it from the highest steeple,
D DM7 D6 Em7 G/B A7
Ring the bells the whole night through;
A7 A7sus4 A7 Em G/B A7
Wake the town and tell the people,
A7 G/B A7 D
Tell them I'm in love with you.
The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.
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