• Song:

    39 21 40 Shape

  • Artist:

    Showmen

Often mistitled as 39-21-46. The epitome of Carolina beach music
 Tabbed by Rick in Macon  



C Am F G7     C Am F 
You    are so beautiful,
G7            C        Am  F
you're such a sight to see,
           G7       C  Am F G7
you're the girl for me.



C Am F G7     C    Am   F 
You   set my soul afire,
           G7         C     Am
filling my heart with one desire,
F          G7      C   C7
wanting to be with you.

F         Dm     F         Dm
You could make a blind man see,
F         Dm     F            Dm
you could make a crippled man walk,
F         Dm       F        Dm         C     Am
You could make the quietest man in the world talk.
C   Am  C   Am C Am   C         Am
Uh, huh, huh. (Nobody else will do.)
F     Dm     F      Dm
Every little boy in town
F        Dm      F    Dm
wants to get his arms around
G    G   G      G
(You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you)
           G7
For no one else will do
    C Am F G7        C Am F   G7
but you,   with your 39-21-40 shape,
C        Am           F       G7       C
Yes, you got me going ape-ity-ape over you
C   Am  F  G7
(You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you. Ah, ah, ah, ah, you)

F         Dm     F         Dm
You could make a blind man see,
F         Dm     F            Dm
you could make a crippled man walk,
F         Dm       F        Dm         C     Am
You could make the quietest man in the world talk.
C       Am   C         Am
Yes. (Nobody else will do.)
F      Dm    F      Dm
Every little boy in town
F        Dm      F    Dm
wants to get his arms around
G  G   G   G
(You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you)
           G7
For no one else will do but
C  Am   F  G7        C  Am F  G7
you,       with your 39-21-40 shape,
C        Am           F       G7       C
Yes, you got me going ape-ity-ape over you
C  Am F  G  (FADE OUT)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Rick in Macon
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