Intro: CmG7/9 Cm6G7CmG7-9 Cm6G7Cm G+ Cm7F
Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cheree!
FmCmDD7-5 G7A sweep is as lucky, as lucky can be.
Cm G+ Cm7F
Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cheroo!
FmCmG7 G7+ Cm
Good luck will rub off when I shake 'ands with you,
FmCmG7Cm
Or blow me a kiss and that's lucky too.
Cm G+ Cm7F
Now as the ladder of life 'as been strung,
FmCmDD7-5 G7
you may think a sweep's on the bottom most rung.
Cm G+ Cm7F
Though I spends me time in the ashes and smoke,
FmCmG7 G+ G7Cm
in this 'ole wide world there's no happier bloke.
Cm G+ Cm7F
Up where the smoke is all billered and curled,
FmCm
'Tween pavement and stars,
DD7-5 G7 G+
is the chimney sweep world.
G7Cm G+ Cm7F
When there's 'ardly no day nor hardly no night,
FmCmG7 G+ G7Cm
there's things'alf in shadow and 'alfway in light,
FmCmG7Cm
On the rooftops of London, coo, what a sight!
2. Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cheree!
When you're with a sweep you're in glad company.
Nowhere is there a more 'appier crew
Than them what sings "chim chim cheree, chim cheroo!"
Chim chiminey chim chim, cheree chim cheeroo!
I choose me bristles with pride, yes, I do:
A broom for the shaft and a brush for the flue.
Tough I'm covered with soot from the 'ead to me toes,
A sweep knows 'es welcome wherever he goes.
Up where the smoke is all billered and curled,
'Tween pavement and stars,
is the chimney sweep world.
When there's hardly no day nor hardly no night,
there's things half in shadow and halfway in light,
On the rooftops of London, coo, what a sight!
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.