Bob Dorough - Three Is A Magic Number Chords

Intro: D G A

--First Verse Single Strum Chords--

|D    G           |D        G
Three, is a magic number,
       |D  G              |D        G|
Yes it is,   it's a magic number.
|D               G               |D        G
Somewhere in the ancient, mystic trinity
        |D   G           |D        G|
You get three as a magic number.

--Strumming--
|D                           G           |
The past and the present and the future.
|D                 G       |
Faith and Hope and Charity,
|D                              G
The heart and the brain and the body
         |D     G          |D    G | 
Give you three, as a magic number.

|D                     G
It takes three legs to make a tri-pod
      |D           G      |
Or to make a table stand.
|D                       G              |
It takes three wheels to make a ve-hicle
|D            G   |
Called a tricycle.

|D             G                  |
Every triangle has three corners,
|D             G                 
Every triangle has three sides,
   |D                G  
No more, no less.
          |D              G  
You don't have to guess.
          |D                G
When it's three you can see
             |D       G|
It's a magic number.


|D                G              D   G|
A man and a woman had a little baby,
          |D   G
Yes, they did.
         |D           G      |D   G
They had three in the family,
                   |D       G|D   G|
And that's a magic number.

|D    G |D     G  |D     G  |D   G|
3-6-9,  12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30.
|D    G |D     G  |D     G  |D   G|
3-6-9,  12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30.


|D                   G                           |
(Spoken) multiply backwards from three times ten

|D                G      |D                  G   |
Three time ten is 30,    three times nine is 27,
|D                   G   |D                   G  |
Three times eight is 24, three times seven is 21,
|D                 G     |D                  G   |
Three times six is 18,   three times five is 15,
|D                  G  
Three times four is 12, 
                |Bm             A                  |G 
And three times three is 9, and three times two is 6,
E               |A
And three times one is three of course.

|                                         |
(Spoken) Now take the pattern once more

|D    G |D     G  |D     G  |D   G|
3-6-9,  12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30.
|D    G |D     G  |D     G  |D   G|
3-6-9,  12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30.

|D                   G                    |
(Spoken) now multiply from ten backwards


|D                G      |D                  G   |
Three time ten is 30,     three times nine is 27,
|D                   G   |D                   G  |
Three times eight is 24, three times seven is 21,
|D                 G     |D                  G   |
Three times six is 18,   three times five is 15,
|D                  G  
Three times four is 12, 
                |Bm             A                  |G 
And three times three is 9, and three times two is 6,
E               |A               |
And three times one (what is it?)  
       |D     G          |D    G     |D   G|
THREE! Yeah!,   That's a magic number

|D                G                |D  G
A man and a woman had a little baby.
         |D    G 
Yes, they did,   
           |D           G      |D    G
There were three in the family.
               |D      --Hold last chord--
That's a magic number.