A Place in the Choir
Words and music by Bill Staines © 1979


	Chorus (after every verse):
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	All god's creatures got a place in the choir
	B7                E
	Some sing low and some sing higher
	     A                              E
	Some sing out loud on the telephone wire
	B7                   E
	Some just clap their hands or paws or anything they've got now.

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Listen to the bass, it's the one at the bottom,
          B7                      E
Where the bullfrog croaks and the hippopotamus
A                              E
Moans and groans in the big tattoo,
        B7                 E
And the old cow just goes "moo."

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The dogs and the cats, they take up the middle,
          B7                    E
Where the honeybee hums and the cricket fiddles.
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The donkey brays and the pony neighs
        B7              E
And the old grey badger sighs oh.

	Chorus

Listen to the top with the little birds singing
And the melodies and the high notes ringing
And the hoot owls cries over everything
And the jaybird disagrees.

Singing in the night time, singing in the day,
And the little duck quacks and he's on his way.
And the otter hasn't got much to say
And the porcupine talks to himself.

	Chorus

It's a simple song, a little one sung everywhere
By the ox and the fox and the grizzly bear,
The dopey alligator and the hawk above,
The sly old weasel and the turtle dove.