Seventy Six Trombones

(Clip begins with instrumental marching music and eventually makes its way into the key of Eb)
 
Capo I
 
C                                       G7
Seventy-six trombones led the big parade
G7                                        C
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand.
C                               C7            F         F
They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuo-
D7                              G7
Sos, the cream of ev'ry famous band.
 
         C                        G7
Seventy-six trombones caught the morning sun
G7                                    C
With a hundred and ten cornets right behind
C
                                 C7
There were more than a thousand reeds 
           F       D7
Springing up like weeds 
            G7                        C
There were horns of ev'ry shape and kind.
 
F                                     C7
There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons
C               C7      F
Thundering, thundering all along the way.
F                           C            C
Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons,
G7                      C     C7
Each bassoon having its big, fat say!
 
F                                       C7
There were fifty mounted cannon in the battery
C               C7        F
Thundering, thundering louder than before
F                               G7
Clarinets of ev'ry size and trumpeters who'd improvise
C               C7             F
A full octave higher than the score!