Hot Soup

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[Verse]
A
You can whistle a tune
Buy a balloon
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You can even eat a bagel with a silver spoon
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But you just can't eat hot soup with your bare hands

        A
You can hang like a bat
Dance with your cat
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You can even use your undies as a pirate hat
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But you just can't eat hot soup with your bare hands

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So if you want to keep out of hot water
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If you want to find yourself top dog in the catbird seat
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Then don't you try to do what you ought not to
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You Better concentrate on doin' the things you can

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 A
You can pickle a prune
Rent a raccoon
F#7
Dig yourself a swimmin' pool with Sun Myung Moon
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But you just can't eat hot soup with your bare hands

           A
Give Edgar Winter a tan
Swim to Azerbaijan
      F#
Do "The Macarena" with the Wu-Tang Clan
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But you just can't eat hot soup with your bare hands

C#7                               F#7
So you don't play ball like Sammy Sosa
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So you'll never fly to Toronto, rent a Miata, drive to the border, go in a barrel down Niagra 
B7
Falls
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The negative should not be dwelt on, no sir, no
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Better concentrate on doin' the things you can
 C#7       F#7
(you the man!) (or the woman!)
        B7                 E7                          F#
And you just can't eat hot soup with your bare hands

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Vegetable! (Vegetable!) Alphabet! (Alphabet!) Chicken noodle! (Chicken noodle!)Spaghettios! 
(That ain't soup!)
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Matzoh ball! (Matzoh ball!) Split pea! (No soup for you!) Minestrone! (Minestrone!) Tom Kha Gai!
 (That
soup's hot!)
F#                                            A          F#7
Leeky leeky! (Leeky leeky!) Wonton! (Wonton!) Gazpacho! (You can do that!)

        B7                 E7
Oh! You just can't eat hot soup
    A                  F#7
You just can't eat hot soup
    B7                 E7
You just can't eat hot soup
    F#7
You just can't eat hot soup
        B7                 E7                  A
Oh! You just can't eat hot soup with your bare hands!