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Eric The Half-a-bee Song Tab

by Monty Python


Title: Eric the half a bee
Artist: Monty Python
Album: The Final Rip Off

[piano intro]

[spoken]

A-one, two, a-one, two, three, four!

Half a bee, philosophically,
Must, ipso facto, half not be.
But half the bee has got to be
Vis a vis, its entity. D'you see?

But can a bee be said to be
Or not to be an entire bee
When half the bee is not a bee
Due to some ancient injury? 

Singing...

           
La dee dee, one two three,
                     
Eric the half a bee.
       
      ,
             
Eric the half a bee.


               
Is this wretched demi-bee,
                  
Half-asleep upon my knee,
                 
Some freak from a menagerie?
                            
No! It's Eric the half a bee!


              
Fiddle de dum, Fiddle de dee,
                    
Eric the half a bee.
         
Ho ho ho, tee hee hee,
             
Eric the half a bee.


                
I love this hive, employee-ee,
                  
Bisected accidentally,
               
One summer afternoon by me,
                  
I love him carnally.


                    
He loves him carnally,
          
Semi-carnally.

[spoken] The End.

Cyril Connolly? 
No, semi-carnally.
Oh. 
[sung quietly] Cyril Connolly.