{"id":1116,"date":"2021-05-10T06:09:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:05:29","slug":"whiffenpoof-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/whiffenpoof-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiffenpoof Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Whiffenpoof Song\r\nWords & Music by Meade Minnigerode, George S. Pomeroy & Ted Galloway\r\nRecorded by Rudy Vallee, 1927\r\n \r\n \r\nC7<\/span>     F<\/span>              D7<\/span>             A#<\/span>         Gm7-5<\/span>   C7<\/span>\r\nTo the tables down at Mory's, to the place where Louis dwells,\r\n \r\n       A#9<\/span>      Gm7-5<\/span>  C7<\/span>              F<\/span>    Cdim<\/span>   C7<\/span>\r\nTo the dear old Temple bar we love so well,\r\n \r\n          F<\/span>              D7<\/span>                 A#<\/span>      Gm7-5<\/span>    C7<\/span>\r\nSing the Whiffenpoofs assembled, with their glasses raised on high,\r\n \r\n          A#9<\/span>          Gm7-5<\/span>     C7<\/span>     F<\/span>    Cdim<\/span>   C7<\/span>\r\nAnd the magic of their singing casts a spell.\r\n \r\n \r\nC7<\/span>        F<\/span>              D7<\/span>             A#<\/span>    Gm7-5<\/span>     C7<\/span>\r\nYes, the magic of their singing of the songs we love so well,\r\n \r\n         A#9<\/span>     Gm7-5<\/span>    C7<\/span>                F<\/span>\r\n\"Shall I Wasting\" and \"Mavourneen\" and the rest;\r\n \r\n\r\nC7<\/span>      F<\/span>             F7<\/span>         A#9<\/span>                   A#m6<\/span>\r\nWe will serenade our Louis while life and voice shall last,\r\n \r\n           F<\/span>        A#9<\/span>    C7<\/span>    E7\/9 C7<\/span>   F<\/span>     C7<\/span>\r\nThen we'll pass and be forgotten with the rest.\r\n \r\n \r\nC7<\/span>     F<\/span>           Dm7<\/span>          Gm7<\/span>       C7<\/span>\r\nWe're poor little lambs who have lost our way:\r\n \r\nGm7<\/span>    C7<\/span>    F<\/span>    Cdim<\/span>   C7<\/span>\r\nBaa!  Baa!  Baa!\r\n \r\nC7<\/span>     F<\/span>           Dm7<\/span>           Gm7<\/span>     C7<\/span>\r\nWe're little black sheep who have gone astray:\r\n \r\nGm7<\/span>    C7<\/span>    F<\/span>     FM7<\/span>\r\nBaa!  Baa!  Baa!\r\n \r\nDm<\/span>       Dm\/C<\/span>     Gm<\/span>       Gm\/F<\/span>\r\nGentlemen songsters off on a spree,\r\n \r\nC           C7       FM7\r\nDoomed from here to eternity;\r\n \r\nDm       Dm\/F    Gm7-5   C#dim\r\nLord have mercy on such  as   we:\r\n \r\n A#9   C    F      FM7\r\nBaa!  Baa!  Baa!\r\n \r\n \r\nThe lyric and guitar chord transcriptions are the work of The Guitarguy<\/span><\/pre>\n
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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 … CLICK TO VIEW SONGWhiffenpoof Song<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,13,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27490,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/27490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}