The Whiffenpoof Song
Words & Music by Meade Minnigerode, George S. Pomeroy & Ted Galloway
Recorded by Rudy Vallee, 1927
[E7] [A] [F#7] [D] [Bm7-5] [E7]
To the tables down at Mory's, to the place where Louis dwells,
[D9] [Bm7-5] [E7] [A] [Edim] [E7]
To the dear old Temple bar we love so well,
[A] [F#7] [D] [Bm7-5] [E7]
Sing the Whiffenpoofs assembled, with their glasses raised on high,
[D9] [Bm7-5] [E7] [A] [Edim] [E7]
And the magic of their singing casts a spell.
[E7] [A] [F#7] [D] [Bm7-5] [E7]
Yes, the magic of their singing of the songs we love so well,
[D9] [Bm7-5] [E7] [A]
"Shall I Wasting" and "Mavourneen" and the rest;
[E7] [A] [A7] [D9] [Dm6]
We will serenade our Louis while life and voice shall last,
[A] [D9] [E7] E7/9 [E7] [A] [E7]
Then we'll pass and be forgotten with the rest.
[E7] [A] [F#m7] [Bm7] [E7]
We're poor little lambs who have lost our way:
[Bm7] [E7] [A] [Edim] [E7]
Baa! Baa! Baa!
[E7] [A] [F#m7] [Bm7] [E7]
We're little black sheep who have gone astray:
[Bm7] [E7] [A] [AM7]
Baa! Baa! Baa!
[F#m] [F#m/E] [Bm] [Bm/A]
Gentlemen songsters off on a spree,
[E] [E7] [AM7]
Doomed from here to eternity;
[F#m] [F#m/A] [Bm7-5] [Fdim]
Lord have mercy on such as we:
[D9] [E] [A] [AM7]
Baa! Baa! Baa!
The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions are the work of The Guitarguy
