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FIRST NOTE = THIRD STRING PLAYING G CHORD – VERY SLOWLY<\/p>\n

[G] You keep me waiting till it\u2019s getting aggravating,\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span>you\u2019re a [Am] slow [D7] poke. [Am] [D7] \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span>[Am] I wait and worry, but you [D7] never seem to hurry, you\u2019re a [G] slow poke.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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[G7] Time means nothing to you, I [Cm] wait and then;\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span>[A] Late again, [D7] eight o\u2019clock, [Am] nine o\u2019clock, [D7] quarter to ten [Am]<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[G] Why should I linger every time you snap your finger,\u00a0 little [Am] slow [D7] poke? [Am] [D7] \u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span>[Am] Why can\u2019t you hasten when you [D7] see the time\u2019s\u00a0 a-wastin\u2019,\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>\u2019re a [G] slow poke,\u00a0\u00a0 [G7] Dear.
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[END CHORUS] – – – – – [C] Why should I keep [Cm] trying to change you\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span>[G] It\u2019s not the thing to [Em] do.\u00a0 <\/span>I [Am] guess I\u2019ll have to learn to be a [D] slow [D7] poke [G] too.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

REPEAT:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>[END CHORUS] – – – – –<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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FIRST NOTE = THIRD STRING PLAYING G CHORD – VERY SLOWLY [G] You keep me waiting till it\u2019s getting aggravating,\u00a0 you\u2019re a [Am] slow [D7] poke. [Am] [D7] \u00a0\u00a0 [Am] I wait and worry, but you [D7] never seem to hurry, you\u2019re a [G] slow poke. [G7] Time means nothing … CLICK TO VIEW SONGSlow Poke<\/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":[120,133,126,265,116,117,68,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-love-songs","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","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=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27774,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions\/27774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}