Intro:  E5 B5 E5    C5 B5 E5

Verse:
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To Bombay a travelling circus came,
    F#5                     B5            F#5            B5
they brought an intelligent elephant and Nellie was her name.

One dark night she slipped her iron chain
and off she ran to Hindustan and was never seen again

music stops

Ooooooooooooooooh
chorus: faster
E5                                        A5                    E5
Nellie the elephant packed her trunk and said good-bye to the circus
A5                  E5                F#5    B5     E5 
Off she went with a trumpety-trump, TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!
    E5                                    A5                        E5
Now Nellie the elephant packed her trunk and trumbled back to the jungle
A5                   E5               F#5    B5     E5
Off she went with a trumpety-trump. TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!


Night by night, she danced to the circus band,
when Nellie was leading the big parade she looked so proud and grand

No more tricks for Nellie to perform
they taught her how to take a bow and she took the crowd by storm

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Ooooooooooooooooh
chorus.
after last chord: C

    Bb5                           F5    Bb5  F5
The head of the herd was calling far, far away;
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they met one night in the silver light on the road to Mandalay

Ooooooooooooooooh
chorus: 

Outro:
F5 Bb5 F5 Bb5 F5 G5 C5
F5 Bb5 F5 Bb5 F5 G5 C5 F5