Swimmin With The Wimmin by George Formby, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

Swimmin With The Wimmin

Biography:

George Formby, OBE (26 May 1904 – 6 March 1961), was a British actor, singer-songwriter and comedian. He sang light, comical songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele. He was a major star of stage and screen in the 1930s and '40s, when Formby became the UK's highest-paid entertainer. His songs such as "When I'm Cleaning Windows" were particularly popular during the Second World War (1939–45).

When he and his wife travelled throughout the war, creating improvised lyrics to songs to fit the situation, they delighted their audiences.

Read more on Last.fm

Other songs:

Share this tab

Four years of hard work!

This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!

...SWIMMIN' WITH THE WIMMIN'... by George Formby
-------------------------------.................

*N.B...Ukulele CHORD DIAGRAMS follow the Guitar Tab*

*CAPO 3rd FRET*

(Original Key: Bb)

Intro:

A7 D7 G7, C F C

Verse 1:

C A7 Gdim G7
Now every year about July, when summer time comes round,
G7 C
There's lots and lots of people at the seaside to be found.
A7 Dm
Some play golf or tennis; others like to take a rest,
D7 D7b5 G7
But here's the kind of exercise, that I en-joy the best;

Chorus 1:

C D7 G7 Gdim G7 C C7
When I go swimin' with the wimmin', eee, I do have a real good time.
F Cdim C D7 G7
Bobbing up and down in the water; it comes just below my Mason Dixon line.

C C7 Caug F
To see the ladies do their ex-er -cises,
D7 E7
You wouldn't think that half of them were slimming.
A7 D7
And when the girls stand up to sneeze, you can see their housemaids knees.
G7 C F C
If you go swimmin' with the wimmin'.

Verse 2:

C A7 Gdim G7
Now even when I am at home and working day to day,
G7 C
I always do look forward to my half day holiday.
A7 Dm
The people don't invite me out, they know my half day's fixed,
D7 D7b5 G7
I go out to the baths that day, because the bathing's mixed.

Chorus 2:

C D7 G7 Gdim G7 C C7
And I go swimin' with the wimmin', and I do have a real good time.
F Cdim C
I go bobbing up and down in the water,
D7
With a pretty girl, whose name is Adeline.

C C7 Caug F
You ought to see her latest bath-ing costume;
D7 E7
It's nothing but a little bit of trimming.
A7 D7
And what I took to be her face, turned out to be a different place,
G7 C F C
When I went swimmin' with the wimmin'.

Interlude:

C D7, G7 Gdim G7, C C7, F Cdim C, D7

Chorus 3:

C C7 Caug F
One day I went in with some of my re -lations,
D7 E7
And someone went and pushed my Uncle Jim in.
A7
He came up gasping for his breath and shouted;
D7
And shouted; "what a lovely death,
G7 C F C
To die while swimmin', with the wimmin!'

Chorus 4:

C D7 G7 Gdim G7 C C7
Once I went swimmin' with the wimmin' and I did feel a big soft thing.
F Cdim C
A woman went and fainted in the water,
D7 G7
And where she disappeared it left a ring.

C C7 Caug F
So I jumped in with nearly all my clothes on,
D7 E7
And swam until my eyesight started dimming.
A7 D7
And after fighting for my life, I found I'd gone and saved the wife;
G7 C F C
So I've chucked swimmin' with the wimmin'!

Outro:

A7 D7 G7, C F C

CHORD DIAGRAMS:
---------------

A7 D7 G7 C F Gdim

EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
x02223 xx0212 323000 x32010 133211 x1202x

Dm D7b5 C7 Cdim Caug E7

EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
xx0231 xx0221 x32310 xx1212 x3211x 020100

*UKULELE CHORDS*
----------------

A7 D7 G7 C F Gdim

GCEA GCEA GCEA GCEA GCEA GCEA
0100 2223 0212 0003 2010 0101

Dm D7b5 C7 Cdim Caug E7

GCEA GCEA GCEA GCEA GCEA GCEA
2210 x223 0001 2323 5443 1202

Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2005 ([email protected])