{"id":17083,"date":"2023-09-03T19:07:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T19:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=17083"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:56:10","slug":"elmers-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/elmers-tune\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmer’s Tune"},"content":{"rendered":"

[G7] <\/span>W<\/span>hy are the stars always blinking and winking above?<\/span>
\nWhat makes a [C] fellow start thinking of [F] falling in [C] love?<\/span>
\nIt\u2019s not the [G7] season, the reason is plain as the moon:<\/span>
\n[D7] It\u2019s just [G7] Elmer’s [C] Tune.<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes a [G7] Lady of eighty go out on the loose?<\/span>
\nWhy does a [C] gander meander in [F] search of a [C] goose?<\/span>
\nWhat puts the [G7] kick in the chicken, the magic in June?<\/span>
\n[D7] It\u2019s just [G7] Elmer’s [C] Tune.<\/span><\/p>\n

[F] Listen, [C] Listen. [F] There\u2019s a lot you\u2019re liable to be [C] missin\u2019.<\/span>
\n[D7] Sing it.\u00a0\u00a0 – – [Am] – –\u00a0 [D7] swing it. [Am]<\/span>
\n[G7] Any old [Am7] time and [G7] any old way.<\/span><\/p>\n

[G7] The hurdy-gurdy, the birdie, the cop on the beat.<\/span>
\nThe candy [C] maker, the baker, the [F] man on the [C] street.<\/span>
\nThe city [G7] charmer, the farmer, the man in the moon:<\/span>
\n[D7] That’s just [G7] Elmer’s\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[D7] It’s just [G7] Elmer’s\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s [D7] all sing [G7] Elmer’s [C] Tune.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[G7] Why are the stars always blinking and winking above? What makes a [C] fellow start thinking of [F] falling in [C] love? It\u2019s not the [G7] season, the reason is plain as the moon: [D7] It\u2019s just [G7] Elmer’s [C] Tune. What makes a [G7] Lady of eighty go … CLICK TO VIEW SONGElmer’s Tune<\/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":[13,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17083","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=17083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}