5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 Please let me sing in the choir, in the choir,
-4 4 4 4 4 4 5 Please let me sing in the choir
3 -4 -4 -4 4 -4 5 -4 One old man can’t be all that bad,
5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Won’t you please let me sing in the choir
4 5 6 6 6 5 6 5 I guess you’d say he’s a fix-ture,
5 -4 4 4 4 4 5 ‘round town they all knew his name,
3 3 -4 -4 -4 5 5 -4 And ev-‘ry time the church bells rang,
5 -4 4 4 3 4 4 3 Un-cle Jes-se, he up and came,
4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 He al-ways sat in the ver-y same pew
-4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 hum-min’ in a voice loud and rough,
3 3 3 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 5 5 -4 When it came to the An-ti-och church house choir,
5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Un-cle Jes-se nev-er heard e-nough.
4 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 See he al-ways want-ed to sing in the choir,
5 5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 but he could-n’t sing a lick don’t you know,
3 3 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 5 -4 Why he tried out for the An-ti-och choir
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 thir-ty four years in a row,
4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 He’d al-ways get to the try-outs ear-ly,
5 -4 4 4 4 4 5 he want-ed to try out first,
3 3 3 3 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 But in-stead of his sing-ing get-tin’ an-y bet-ter,
5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Ev-‘ry year it just got a lit-tle worse.
4 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 He’d say Please let me sing in the choir, in the choir,
-4 4 4 4 4 4 5 Please let me sing in the choir
3 -4 -4 -4 4 -4 5 -4 One old man can’t be all that bad,
5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Won’t you please let me sing in the choir
4 5 6 6 5 6 5 One cloud-y Sun-day mor-nin’,
5 5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 5 I re-mem-ber it was rain-in’ some.
3 3 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 The church bells rang and ev-‘ry-bod-y came
5 -4 4 4 3 4 4 3 ex-cept Jes-se, he did-n’t come,
4 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 And ev-‘ry-bod-y start-ed get-tin’ wor-ried,
5 5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 but they fig-ured they would start an-y how,
3 3 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 Just as they did Jes-se’s voice
-4 -4 -4 -4 5 -4 4 4 came a boom-ing down from heav-en,
4 4 4 -4 4 and I don’t know how.
4 4 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 He said I found me a choir that-’ll let me sing,
5 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 4 5 and now I’m sing-ing in the choir,
3 3 3 3 -4 -4 -4 -4 5 5 -4 And I can raise my voice just as high as yours,
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Maybe just a lit-tle high-er.
4 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 Well, I found me a choir that-’ll let me sing,
5 -4 -4 -4 4 -4 4 5 and now I’m sing-ing in the choir,
3 3 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 5 -4 You folks down there you can’t hold me a light,
5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ‘cause I’m sing-in’ in the heav-en-ly choir.