Joy To The World - Three Dog Night

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Joy to the World
      by 
Three Dog Night
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Chords:      
                          
 [--4--     [-
o[-----     [-
o[-----     [-
o[-----    o[-
 [-2---    o[-
 [--3--    x[-
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2---       [--
-3--       [-1
1---       [-1
----       [-1
----      o[--
----      o[--
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3--
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     Jeremiah 

              
was a bullfrog

          
      was a go

              
od friend of m

        
ine 

            
I never unders

             
tood a single 

             
word he said, 

             
but I helped h

             
im to drink hi

  
s wine.

            
And he always 

             
had some might

       
y fine wine, s

ingin'
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REFRAIN:

             
Joy to the wor

             
ld.  All the b

        
oys and girls,

 now.

           
Joy to the fis

             
hes in the dee

             
p blue sea, jo

            
y to you and m

e.
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     If I were

              
 the king of t

          
he world      

              
I tell you wha

          
t I'd do

             
I'd throw away

            
 the cars, and

             
 the bars, and

               
 the war, 

             
and make sweet

        
 love to you, 

singin' now

Refrain.
(Instrumental break)

             
You know I lov

             
e the ladies  

           
    love to ha

           
ve my fun

             
I'm a highligh

            
t flyer and a 

       
rainbow rider,

             
a straight sho

             
otin' son of a

 
 gun (alright!

) 

           
I said a strai

              
ght shootin' s

        
on of a gun.

Refrain. (Repeat refrain)

           
  Joy to the w

             
orld.   All th

           
e boys and gir

ls. 

           
  Joy to the w

             
orld.   Joy to

      
 you and me.

Refrain. Repeat and fade. 
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For the A7 chord, optional fingering sounds good. However, both forms of the chord sound OK.

-Nate Nypaver (Beatlemaniac87)

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