Verse
F# B F#
Wrote a letter this mornin',
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Put it in your hat,
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'Cause no one to read it
F# B F#
And I know you knew that.
E
I bought a joke,
F#
a trick or two,
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Just to bring and show you,
E F#
Caught ya with the trickster too
B B/A# G#m G#m/F#
Sometimes I wonder how ya knew
G#m
G# hypnotist, fancytalker,
B A E B
Ruben Remus ain't no doctor
[Verse 2]
F# B F#
I knew the man and tried to remember
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Just where it was that I'd seen his face.
F# B F#
Long ago, in a movie show,
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He was like that man singin' bass.
E F#
Knew him by his nurs'ry rhyme:
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The Story Of The Rabbit Man.
E F#
Fell right in and said to him:
B B/A# G#m G#m/F#
"I'd like to help you if I can."
G#m
I know the film would only shock ya,
B A E B
Ruben Remus ain't no doctor!
[Verse 3]
F# B F#
He only needed what you had,
F# B F#
Asked for nothing more,
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Said he'd like to take you on,
F# B F#
But it's been done before.
E F#
You couldn't see he's a travelin' man
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And he cannot take your hand.
E F#
It's very hard to understand
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Why his songs were never banned.
G#m
Guess the man would never knock ya,
B A E B
Ruben Remus ain't no doctor!
[Verse 4]
F# B F#
No one seen ya since he's been gone,
F# B F#
It's been a day, maybe more.
F# B F#
I took a walk in your yard
F# B F#
And knocked on your back door.
E F#
Why don't you let me in?
B B/A# G#m G#m/F#
I'm not the man who did ya in.
E F#
Is mr. Remus still your friend?
B B/A# G#m G#m/F#
You say you don't remember him
E
Turn me down, would ya?
B
Well, I've got news for you.
E
Turn me down would ya,
B B/A#
Can't ya tell
G#m E B
I'm gonna change your mind before I'm... trough...