"Oom Pah Pah" by Lionel Bart

(3/4 time. 4 bar intro)

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(ALL)

Oom-pah-pah! Oom-pah-pah!

That's how it goes, 

Oom-pah-pah! Oom-pah-pah!

Ev'ryone knows. 

(SOLO 1) 

They all suppose

What they want to suppose

(ALL)

When they hear...oom-pah-pah!

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(Nancy) There's a little ditty

They're singing in the city

'Specially when they've been

On the gin Or the beer

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If you've got the patience, 

Your own imaginations

Will tell you just exactly

What you want to hear... 

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(All) 

Oom-pah-pah! Oom-pah-pah!

That's how it goes, 

Oom-pah-pah! Oom-pah-pah!

Ev'ryone knows. 

(SOLO 1) 

They all suppose what they want to suppose

(ALL)

When they hear...oom-pah-pah!! 

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(NANCY)

Mister Percy Snodgrass

Would often have the odd glass -- 

But never when he thought

Anybody could see.

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Secretly he'd buy it,

And drink it on the quiet,

And dream he was an Earl

Wiv' a girl on each knee!

(ALL) 

Oom-pah-pah! Oom-pah-pah!

That's how it goes, 

Oom-pah-pah! Oom-pah-pah!

Ev'ryone knows. 

(NANCY) 

They all suppose what they want to suppose

(ALL)

When they hear...oom-pah-pah!! 

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(NANCY)

Pretty little Sally

Goes walking down the alley​

Displays her pretty ankles

To all of the men.

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They could see her garters

But not for free and gratis.

An inch or two and then she knew

When to say when.

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(ALL) 

Oom-pah-pah! Oom-pah-pah!

That's how it goes, 

Oom-pah-pah! Oom-pah-pah!

Ev'ryone knows. 

(NANCY) 

They all suppose what they want to suppose

(ALL)

When they hear...oom-pah-pah!!