The Marvelous Toy
Tom Paxton • Key:
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The Marvelous Toy
Tom Paxton
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 17:34:49 MET
From: gocek@eso.mc.xerox.com (Gocek)
Subject: The Marvelous Toy, chord program format
Message-ID: <1994Jan14.163449.15195@spectrum.xerox.com>
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature
* From: gocek@eso.mc.xerox.com (Gary Gocek)
* Reply-To: gocek@eso.mc.xerox.com
I couldn't find a Paxton recording, so this is from what I got from this
newsgroup
as well as the Peter, Paul and Mary recording.
When
D
I was just a
A7
wee little lad,
D
full of health and
A7
joy,
My
G
father homeward
D
came one night and
E
gave to me a
A7
toy.
A
D
wonder to be
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hold it was, with
D
many colors
G
bright,
And the moment I lay
D
eyes on it, it be
E
came my
A7
heart's delight.
Chorus
It went
D
zip when it moved and
A7
pop when it stopped,
And
D
whirrrrrr when it stood
G
still.
I never knew just
D
what it was and I
A7
guess I never
D
will.
The
D
first time that I
A7
picked it up, I
D
had a big
A7
surprise,
'Cause
G
right on the bottom were
D
two big buttons that
E
looked like big
green
A7
eyes.
I
D
first pushed one and
A7
then the other,
D
then I twisted its
G
lid,
And when I set it
D
down again,
E
here is what it
A7
did.
chorus
It
D
first marched left and
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then marched straight,
D
then marched under a
A7
chair,
And
G
when I looked where
D
it had gone it
E
wasn't even
A7
there.
I
D
started to cry but my
A7
daddy laughted 'cause he
D
knew that I would
G
find,
When I turned around my
D
marvelous toy would be
E
chugging on be
A7
hind.
chorus
The
D
years have gone by too
A7
quickly it seems, now
D
I have my own little
A7
boy,
And
G
yesterday I
D
gave to him my
E
marvelous little
A7
toy.
His
D
eyes nearly popped right
A7
out of his head and he
D
gave a squeal of
G
glee,
Neither one of us knows just
D
what it is but he
E
loves it just like
A7
me.
chorus
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