Chim Chim Cher-ee

from Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins"

Richard & Robert Sherman - 1964
Lightly, with gusto

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Chim chim in ey, chim chim in ey, Chim Chim Cher ee! A sweep is as luck y, as luck y can
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be. Chim chim in ey, chim chim in ey, chim chim cher oo! Good luck will rub off When I
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shakes 'ands with you, or blow me a kiss, and that's luck y too.
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1. Now, as the lad der of life 'as been strung, you may think a sweep's on the
2. I choose me bris tles with pride, yes, I do: a broom for the shaft, and a
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bot tom most rung. Though I spends me time in the ash es and smoke, in
brush for the flue. Though I'm cov er'd with soot from me 'ead to me toes, a
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this 'ole wide world, there's no 'ap pi er bloke. Up where the smoke is all
sweep knows 'e's wel come wher ev er 'e goes.
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bill er'd and curled, 'tween pave ment and star, is the chim ney sweep's
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world. When there's 'ard ly no day, nor 'ard ly no night, there's things 'alf in
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sha dow and 'alf way in light. On the roof tops of Lon don, coo, what a
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sight! Chim chim in ey, chim chim in ey, chim chim cher ee! When you're with a
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sweep, you're in glad com ny. No where is there a more 'ap pi er crew, than them wot sings,
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"Chim chim cher ee, chim cher oo!" Chim chim in ey, chim chim cher ee, chim che roo!