5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 Please let me sing in the choir, in the choir, -4 4 4 4 4 4 5 Please let me sing in the choir 3 -4 -4 -4 4 -4 5 -4 One old man can't be all that bad, 5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Won't you please let me sing in the choir 4 5 6 6 6 5 6 5 I guess you'd say he's a fix-ture, 5 -4 4 4 4 4 5 'round town they all knew his name, 3 3 -4 -4 -4 5 5 -4 And ev-'ry time the church bells rang, 5 -4 4 4 3 4 4 3 Un-cle Jes-se, he up and came; 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 He al-ways sat in the ver-y same pew -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 hum-min' in a voice loud and rough, 3 3 3 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 5 5 -4 When it came to the An-ti-och church house choir, 5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Un-cle Jes-se nev-er heard e-nough. 4 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 See he al-ways want-ed to sing in the choir, 5 5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 but he could-n't sing a lick don't you know, 3 3 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 5 -4 Why he tried out for the An-ti-och choir 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 thir-ty four years in a row; 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 He'd al-ways get to the try-outs ear-ly, 5 -4 4 4 4 4 5 he want-ed to try out first, 3 3 3 3 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 But in-stead of his sing-ing get-tin' an-y bet-ter, 5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Ev-'ry year it just got a lit-tle worse. 4 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 He'd say Please let me sing in the choir, in the choir, -4 4 4 4 4 4 5 Please let me sing in the choir 3 -4 -4 -4 4 -4 5 -4 One old man can't be all that bad, 5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Won't you please let me sing in the choir 4 5 6 6 5 6 5 One cloud-y Sun-day mor-nin', 5 5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 5 I re-mem-ber it was rain-in' some. 3 3 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 The church bells rang and ev-'ry-bod-y came 5 -4 4 4 3 4 4 3 ex-cept Jes-se, he did-n't come; 4 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 And ev-'ry-bod-y start-ed get-tin' wor-ried, 5 5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 but they fig-ured they would start an-y how, 3 3 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 Just as they did Jes-se's voice -4 -4 -4 -4 5 -4 4 4 came a boom-ing down from heav-en, 4 4 4 -4 4 and I don't know how. 4 4 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 He said I found me a choir that-'ll let me sing, 5 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 4 5 and now I'm sing-ing in the choir, 3 3 3 3 -4 -4 -4 -4 5 5 -4 And I can raise my voice just as high as yours, 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Maybe just a lit-tle high-er. 4 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 Well, I found me a choir that-'ll let me sing, 5 -4 -4 -4 4 -4 4 5 and now I'm sing-ing in the choir, 3 3 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 5 -4 You folks down there you can't hold me a light, 5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 'cause I'm sing-in' in the heav-en-ly choir.