The Biggest Parakeets In Town Chords

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The Biggest Parakeets In Town by Jud Strunk is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, D, G, A, E, Fm, Gbm, Am, F, Em and Ab. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
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Intro:
 
C                      D 
Some folks I know keep looking for rare old coins  
    G 
and stamps. 
A                       D           G 
While others see what's cooking, in antique books  

and lamps. 
C                     D 
Some hobbies are like slavery, there's one too tough  
    E 
for words. 
     A               E       G   A          G       C 
This girl has got an aviary, and you should see her birds. 


#1. 
C                                        D 
She's got chanticleers and dickey birds, intelligent and  
                   G                   C 
tricky birds, that make the boys hang around. 
    Fm                                            Gbm 
Her crow is black and shiny, her hummingbirds are tiny, 
          D                            G 
but she's got the biggest parakeets in town! 

#2. 
          C                        D 
She's got cockatoos and bobolinks, in royal blue and dusty  
                                              E 
pinks, and you should see them hangin' upside down. 
         C 
Oh, it's thrilling to behold her, when she wings them past  
    Am                    G                            C 
her shoulder, cause she's got the biggest parakeets in town! 

#3. 
C                        D                  G 
And every night when she gets into bed, she puts each one  
     C 
on a pillow. 
C                                            A 
Oh, they sound like Bing, when they start to sing, tweet  
D                           G 
willow, tweet willow, tweet willow. 


#4. 
C                                        D 
After holding them and petting them, she gets a thrill in  
                                                  E 
letting them, go swingin' from the ceiling to the ground. 
Fm                                               A 
Ask anyone who's seen 'em, it's hard to choose between 'em. 
            D               G            C 
Cause she's got the biggest parakeets in town! 

#5. 
C                                             D 
Imagine her in love one day, as she tells her fiance, "Okay!" 
       G                     C 
on the day the wedding rolls around. 
C                            F                   C 
Now, he loves the ground she stands on, he can't wait  
           A             D                    G 
to get his hands on, the biggest parakeets in town. 

#6. 
      C                                    D 
Well, picture on their wedding night, when hubby, dear, turns 
                                G              E 
off the light, and wakes in the mornin' with a frown. 
C     Am      A      D       Em        Ab     E 
As he goes to caress her, he sees them on the dresser.. 
    D       G            C 
the biggest parakeets in town! 
                                  D       G            C 
(She's really got 'em, boy! ) the biggest parakeets in town! 

(They're enormous!)  
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante