RIP VAN WINKLE
(Ray Sanchez)


The Devotions - 1964





(Bom-boom, bom-bom-ba-bom-bom)
(Bom-boom, bom-bom-ba-bom-bom)
 
Rip Van Winkle, Rip van Winkle
Sleep, sleep, sleep
Rip Van Winkle, Rip Van Winkle
Sleep, sleep, sleep

(Bom-boom, bom-bom-ba-bom-bom)
(Bom-boom, bom-bom-ba-bom-bom)
 
He fell asleep in the woods one day
Spent twenty years of his life that way
(Rip Van Winkle, Rip Van Winkle)
(Sleep, sleep, sleep)
 
That nagging wife kept all of his coin
None of his friends could he ever join
(Rip Van Winkle, Rip Van Winkle)
(Sleep, sleep, sleep)
 
Those little elves bowled on the green
Rip would dream, dream
 
(Oh well), he left his nagging wife now
(He slept for 20 years)
Didn't bother to wake up
(He grew a long white beard)
This is how the story goes
(Listen my children and you will hear)
 
He fell asleep in the woods one day
Spent twenty years of his life that way
(Oooooh-oooooh)
(Sleep, sleep, sleep)

That nagging wife kept all of his coin
None of his friends could he ever join
(Rip Van Winkle, Rip Van Winkle)
(Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-da-doo)
 
(Bom-boom, bom-bom-ba-bom-bom)
(Bom-boom, bom-bom-ba-bom-bom)
 
(Rip Van Winkle, Rip van Winkle)
(Sleep, sleep, sleep)
(Rip Van Winkle, Rip Van Winkle)
(Sleep, sleep, sleep)
(Rip Van Winkle, Rip van Winkle)
(Slept his life away)
(Rip Van Winkle, Rip Van Winkle)
(Slept his life away)
 
(Bom-boom, bom-bom-ba-bom-bom)
(Bom-boom, bom-bom-ba-bom-bom)
 
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - June 2012)