The Little Drummer Boy Chords

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The Little Drummer Boy by Various is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, C, F7, Bb and C7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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F
Text
16
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  			F  
Come they told me          pa rum pum pum pum  
  
Our new born king to see   pa rum pum pum pum  
C  
Our finest gifts we bring  pa rum pum pum pum  
                   F7                                  Bb                                F                                   C  
To lay before the king     pa rum pum pum pum  rum pum pum pum  rum pum pum pum  
F                                                                                     C7               F  
So to honor him            pa rum pum pum pum  when we come  
  
F   
Little baby                pa rum pum pum pum            

I am a poor boy too        pa rum pum pum pum  
C  
I have no gifts to bring   pa rum pum pum pum  
                         F7                              Bb                                F                                   C  
Thats fit to give our king pa rum pum pum pum  rum pum pum pum  rum pum pum pum  
F                                                                                        C7        F  
Shall i play for you       pa rum pum pum pum  on my drum  
  
F  
Mary nodded                pa rum pum pum pum  
  
The ox and lamb kept time  pa rum pum pum pum  
C                        
I played my drum for him   pa rum pum pum pum  
                       F7                              Bb                                 F                                  C  
I played my best for him   pa rum pum pum pum  rum pum pum pum  rum pum pum pum  
F                                                                                         C7                  F7  
Then he smiled at me       pa rum pum pum pum  me and my drum  
  
  



    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante