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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
        B                  E7                   A      
But you just can't eat hot soup with your bare hands
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        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
        B7                 E7                  A      
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 
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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
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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 
                    C7                 B7
the border, go in a barrel down Niagra Falls
C#7                                  F#7
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!)
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And you just can't eat hot soup with your bare hands
F#


B7                      E7                    A7     
Vegetable! (Vegetable!) Alphabet! (Alphabet!) Chicken
                          A
 noodle! (Chicken noodle!)Spaghettios! (That ain't 
soup!)
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Matzoh ball! (Matzoh ball!) Split pea! (No soup for 
        F#                        F#m
you!) Minestrone! (Minestrone!) Tom Kha Gai! (That
soup's hot!)
F#                                            A      
Leeky leeky! (Leeky leeky!) Wonton! (Wonton!) 
    F#7
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!