Tom: C

Intro: C - D ~   C - D  ~
 
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1. When I was young my father said, "Son, I have something to say!"
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    And what he told me I'll never forget until my dying day. He said...
 

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"Son, you are a bachelor boy, and that's the way to stay.
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Son, you'll be a bachelor boy until your dying day."
 

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2. When I was sixteen I fell in love with a girl as sweet as can be.
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    But I remembered just in time, what daddy said to me. He said...
 
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3. As time goes by I probably will meet a girl and fall in love.
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    Then I'll get married, have a wife and a child,
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    and they'll be my turtle doves.     But until then
 

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    I'll be a bachelor boy, that' s the way I'll stay,
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    happy to be a bachelor boy, until my dying day, Yeah !
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    I'll be a bachelor boy, that' s the way I'll stay.
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    Happy to be a bachelor boy, until my dying da.......................y.