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This song is an ask-along, rather than a sing-along . . . .\r\n[Intro]\r\n \r\nWell now you've [C] been asked foolish questions and I [F] think that all of you know.  That you're [C] bound to run into most of them, most [G] anywhere you go.\r\n\r\nAnd you [C] all know the story of the man you [F] meet on the way, You say to him, [C] hey how are things, and you'll listen to him [G] say.  He's [C] just been to the funeral of [F] poor old uncle Ned\r\nAnd the [C] next question they're gonna ask is, [NC]  Ned's dead?\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS } - - - Foolish [C] questions, you might as well [F] reply:   No Ned thought he'd [F] have his funeral now, and [C] later-on some time he'd [G] die.   You know he is so [C] original that he wanted it that [G] way.  Foolish [C] questions, you'll hear them every [G] day\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\nWell you [C] step into an elevator and you [F] open up the door.  You [C] walk right into the shaft and fall [G] down five stinkin' floors.\r\nAnd [C] when you hit the bottom and you're [F] laying there in the dirt.  The [C] first person that's gonna come along and say, [NC] are you hurt?\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS } - - - - Ah, yes, foolish [C] questions, your dying words are [F] no.  I was going to the [F] Bistro and well [C] the elevator's too [G] slow.\r\nI find a save a [C] lot of time, comin [G] down that way.  Foolish [C] questions, yeah you'll hear them every [G] day.\r\n\r\n[Verse 3] - - - You go to visit family.  Been gone for quite awhile.  And you go down to the Bistro, where people look and smile.\r\n<\/span>Someone shakes your hand so warmly, and slaps you on the back.\r\nAnd ask you the obvious question:  [NC] Are you back?\r\n\r\n{ CHORUS } - - - - Oh my, those questions.  You tell them no, not yet.  My plane is on the tarmac, I've not arrived here yet.  You think that you may see me, but it's really not that way.  Oh my, those questions.  You here them every day.\r\n[Verse 4] - - - On a really hot day in August, with the thermometer at 101, a man is pushing a lawn mower, and oozing like a sponge.  He stops for a sip of water, when he hears someone ask.  So what are you doing?  Are you cutting the grass?'\r\n\r\n{ CHORUS } - - - - Oh bless his heart you think.  And then you simply say.  No I'm trying to sell this mowing machine, and have been - all day.\r\nIf I don't get any takers, I don't know what I'll do.  Oh, silly questions that people ask of you.\r\n\r\n[Verse 5] - - - You settle down on the family couch, and turn on the TV.  When the phone rings, and you pick it up, wondering who it'd be.\r\nYou pick up the phone and say hello, just glad to be finally alone,  and the person asks on the other end [NC] are you home?\r\n\r\n{ CHORUS } - - - - Oh another question.  You get them far to much.  You'd think that people had a clue, of reality and such.  No, I'm not really home, I forwarded all my calls.  Oh my these questions.  <\/span><\/pre>\n
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