Whiffenpoof Song

The Whiffenpoof Song
Words & Music by Meade Minnigerode, George S. Pomeroy & Ted Galloway
Recorded by Rudy Vallee, 1927
 
 
C7     F              D7             A#         Gm7-5   C7
To the tables down at Mory's, to the place where Louis dwells,
 
       A#9      Gm7-5  C7              F    Cdim   C7
To the dear old Temple bar we love so well,
 
          F              D7                 A#      Gm7-5    C7
Sing the Whiffenpoofs assembled, with their glasses raised on high,
 
          A#9          Gm7-5     C7     F    Cdim   C7
And the magic of their singing casts a spell.
 
 
C7        F              D7             A#    Gm7-5     C7
Yes, the magic of their singing of the songs we love so well,
 
         A#9     Gm7-5    C7                F
"Shall I Wasting" and "Mavourneen" and the rest;
 

C7      F             F7         A#9                   A#m6
We will serenade our Louis while life and voice shall last,
 
           F        A#9    C7    E7/9 C7   F     C7
Then we'll pass and be forgotten with the rest.
 
 
C7     F           Dm7          Gm7       C7
We're poor little lambs who have lost our way:
 
Gm7    C7    F    Cdim   C7
Baa!  Baa!  Baa!
 
C7     F           Dm7           Gm7     C7
We're little black sheep who have gone astray:
 
Gm7    C7    F     FM7
Baa!  Baa!  Baa!
 
Dm       Dm/C     Gm       Gm/F
Gentlemen songsters off on a spree,
 
C           C7       FM7
Doomed from here to eternity;
 
Dm       Dm/F    Gm7-5   C#dim
Lord have mercy on such  as   we:
 
 A#9   C    F      FM7
Baa!  Baa!  Baa!
 
 
The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions are the work of The Guitarguy