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