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Verse 1: [12-string plays intro riff throughout]\r\nTraditional two note intro is the bottom two strings playing A, E, D, A\r\n<\/span> \r\n[A] I don't [E] care [D] what they [A] say - - - - [A] [E] [D] [A]\r\n<\/span><\/span>[A] I'm gonna [E] keep it [D] any [A] way - - - - <\/span><\/span>[A] [E] [D] [A]\r\n<\/span><\/span>[ NECKS - TURN AROUND LINE ] - - - - - [A] I won't [E] let them [D] stretch their [A] necks - - - - [A] [E] [D] [A] - - - - - To see my [A] little black [E] egg with the [D] little white [A] specks - - - - [A] [E] [D] [A]\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS } - - - - [F#m] I found it [E] in a tree - - - - <\/span><\/span>[F#m] Just the other [E] day.   <\/span><\/span>[F#m] And now it's mine, all [E] mine - - - - <\/span><\/span>[F#maj] They won't take it [E] away\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> \r\nVerse 2: - - - <\/span>[A] Here comes [E] Mary, [D] <\/span>here comes [A]<\/span> Lee - - - - <\/span><\/span>[A] [E] [D] [A]\r\n<\/span>[A] I'll bet [E] what they [D] <\/span>want to [A]<\/span> see - - - - <\/span><\/span>[A] [E] [D] [A]\r\n[ REPEAT NECKS - TURN AROUND LINE ]\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n                                          { CHORUS }<\/span>\r\nVerse 3: - - - <\/span>[A] Oh, gol- [E] - durn, what [D] c<\/span>an I do? [A] - - - - <\/span><\/span>[A] [E] [D] [A]\r\n<\/span>[A] The little black [E] egg's gonna [D] <\/span>tell on you [A] - - - - <\/span><\/span>[A] [E] [D] [A]\r\n<\/span><\/span>[ REPEAT NECKS - TURN AROUND LINE ]<\/span> \r\n<\/span><\/span>\r\nCoda: - - - - <\/span><\/span>The [A] little black [E] egg... [D] [A] - - - - The [A] little black [E] egg... [D] [A] - - - - The [A] little black [E] egg... [D] [A] \r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Verse 1: [12-string plays intro riff throughout] Traditional two note intro is the bottom two strings playing A, E, D, A [A] I don’t [E] care [D] what they [A] say – – – – [A] [E] [D] [A] [A] I’m gonna [E] keep it [D] any [A] way – … CLICK TO VIEW SONGLittle Black Egg<\/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":[24,95,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-animals","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8751","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=8751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}