{"id":7056,"date":"2022-01-24T16:51:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:09:58","slug":"ob-la-di-ob-la-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/ob-la-di-ob-la-da\/","title":{"rendered":"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da   &#8211; ORIGINAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 900;\">[Intro]\r\n| A | % | % | % |\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[A] Desmond has a barrow in the [E] market place\r\n[E7] Molly is the singer in a [A] band\r\n[A] Desmond says to Molly, \"Girl, I [D] like your face\"\r\nAnd Molly [A] says this as she [E] takes him by the [A] hand\r\n\r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nOb-la- [A] di, ob-la-da, life goes [E] on, [F#m] brah!\r\n[A] Lala how the [E] life goes [A] on\r\nOb-la- [A] di, ob-la-da, life goes [E] on, [F#m] brah!\r\n[A] Lala how the [E] life goes [A] on.\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[A] Desmond takes a trolley to the [E] jeweller's store\r\n[E7] Buys a twenty carat golden [A] ring\r\n[A] Takes it back to Molly waiting [D] at the door\r\nAnd as he [A] gives it to her [E] she begins to [A] sing\r\n\r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nOb-la- [A] di, ob-la-da, life goes [E] on, [F#m] brah!\r\n[A] Lala how the [E] life goes [A] on\r\nOb-la- [A] di, ob-la-da, life goes [E] on, [F#m] brah!\r\n[A] Lala how the [E] life goes [A] on.\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[D]  In a couple of years,\r\nThey have built a home sweet [A] home, [A7] \r\n[D]  With a couple of kids running in the yard,\r\n[A\/E] Of Desmond and Molly [E] Jones... (Ha ha ha ha ha)\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[A] Happy ever after in the [E] market place\r\n[E7] Desmond lets the children lend a [A] hand\r\n[A] Molly stays at home and does her [D] pretty face\r\nAnd in the [A] evening she's still [E] singing with the [A] band\r\n\r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nOb-la- [A] di, ob-la-da, life goes [E] on, [F#m] brah! \r\n[A] Lala how the [E] life goes [A] on \r\nOb-la- [A] di, ob-la-da, life goes [E] on, [F#m] brah! \r\n[A] Lala how the [E] life goes [F#m] on.\r\nAnd if you [F#m] want some fun,\r\nTake [E] Ob-La-Di-Bla- [A] Da!\r\n<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] | A | % | % | % | [Verse 1] [A] Desmond has a barrow in the [E] market place [E7] Molly is the singer in a [A] band [A] Desmond says to Molly, &#8220;Girl, I [D] like your face&#8221; And Molly [A] says this as she [E] &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/ob-la-di-ob-la-da\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da   &#8211; ORIGINAL<\/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":[24,133,126,13,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056","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=7056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}