Biography:
Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an Academy Award-winning American composer, conductor and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores - his best-known works are the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series and Moon River. Mancini won a record number of Grammy awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.
Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland
Read more on Last.fm
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!
He Shouldn't-a, Hadn't-a, Oughtn't-a Swang on Me
Henry Mancini
Intro
A B D B
He sleeps out there, out where the coyotes wail,
D A E B
The reason he ain't at the bar with the boys,
B E B D A C#
Makes quite a dismal tale ...
Chorus 1
A C D E A
He shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me,
A C D E B
He oughtn't-a, shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, no siree.
C D
You don't get many callers,
E B
Sleeping on the lone prairie.
A C D E A
But he shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me.
Verse 1
A
Way out West we're wild and wooly,
A
In order to explain it fully:
C D C D
We're tall grown, all grown,
A
All the men are hairy-chested,
A
And all the women, double-breasted.
A
We're lady-like until molested,
B D E
And then we're on our own!
Chorus 2
A C D E A
He shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me,
A C D E B
He oughtn't-a shouldn't-a hadn't-a felt so free.
C D
His wife gets the insurance,
E B
And I'm sorry as can be,
A C D E A
But he shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me.
Verse 2
A
This here job is mighty tryin',
A
Sometimes the room is fairly flyin' with
C D C D
High-balls, eye-balls.
A
One got killed, somebody got 'im,
A
Tore up the joint from top to bottom.
A
I think I was that one that shot him,
B D E
As near as I recall.
Chorus 3
A C D E A
He shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me,
B A B E B
He massacred eight or nine men at the Lazy "B".
A C D A
He then took on the sheriff, and the sheriff's deputy,
A C D E B
But he shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me.
Verse 3
A
All you boys remember Harry,
A
The wrangler I was set to marry,
C D C D
A long man, strong man.
A
One night he yells, "I'm from Texas!"
A
And socks me in my solar plexus.
A
Well having normal, good reflexes,
B D E
I knocked him on his can!
Chorus 4
B D E F# B
He shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a blacked my eye,
E B D F C
I'm really a lovable, peaceable kind of guy.
C D E B
I wouldn't scare a rabbit, and I couldn't harm a flea,
B D E F# B
But he shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me.
Music 1
Verse 4
A
If this story has a moral,
A
It's: When you're looking for a quarrel or
C D C D
Show Down. "Slow down."
A
If by now, you haven't mastered,
A
The gentle art of getting plastered,
A
You're just a Low-Down, you ain't mastered,
B D E
The motto of our town!
Chorus 5 ending
B D E F# B
You shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a start no fight,
D F C
Our burying ground is a most impressive sight.
C D E B
The message on them tombstones is as simple as can be,
D E B E C# F#
He shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me,
E F# C# F# D A
He shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me!
Notes! All chords are barre chords.
Barre chords- Intro thru Verse 3 between frets 3-7 except: Chorus 1 3rd C, Chorus 2 3rd
C, Chorus 3 2nd C at 8th fret.
Chorus 4 between frets 5-9. Verse 4, frets 3-7. Chorus 5 between frets 5-9 except 5th D
at 10th fret, and 1st A at 12 th fret.
Strumming- Alot of quick, rapid, snapping strumming.
Performed by Lily O'Lay :The Queen of the West (Boracho's Own)
Movie: The Great Race
Herb Ohta Jr
Herb Ohta Jr. &a (...)
Herbert Groeneme (...)
Herbert Grö (...)
Herbert Roth