
Les Poissons
Alan Menken
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Tom : Bm
G - F# - E - F# -
G - F# -
D - - F# - - A - - D - -
G - F# -
Les poissons, les poissons
E - F# -
How I love les poissons
G - F# - E
Love to chop and to serve little fish
A - G# -
First I cut off zeir heads
F# - G# -
Then I pull out zeir bones
A - G# - E
Ah mes oui, savez toujours delice
G - F# -
Les poissons, les poissons
E - F# -
Hee hee hee, haw haw haw
G - F# - E
With ze cleaver I hack zem in two
G - G# -
I pull out what's inside
A - B -
And I serve it up fried
C - F# - G
God, I love little fishes, don't you?
G - G# - A# - D#
Here's something for tempting the palette
G - G# - A# - D#
Prepared in the classic technique
E A
First you pound the fish flat with a mallet
A - A# -
Then you slash through the skin
B - C -
Give the belly a slice
C#
Then you rub some salt in
B
'Cause it makes it taste nice
Zut alors, I have missed one!
G - F# -
Sacre bleu, what is this?
E - F# -
How on earth could I miss
G - F# - E
Such a sweet little suculent crab
A - G# -
Quel Domage, what a loss
F# - G# -
Here we go, in the sauce
A - G# - E
Now some flour I think just a dab
G - F# -
Now I stuff you with bread
E - F# -
It don't hurt 'cause you're dead!
G - F# - E
And you're certainly lucky you are
G - G# - A - B -
'Cause it's gonna be hot in my big silver pot!
C - F# - G
Tootle-loo mon poisson Au revoir!
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