Busy Line

A little invention can be used here when you play the brrrr brrrr.
Maybe a bit slick tongue switching or fast head shake. It is tabbed as
musically written.

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I put a//nick-el in the tel-e-phone and/
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dialled my ba-by’s number- got a/
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b-r-r-r, b-r-r-r, b-r-r-r– bus-y/
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line Each time I/tried I got a bus-y tone,– but/
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not my ba-by’s num-ber,– just a/
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b-r-r-r, b-r-r-r, b-r-r-r,– bus-y/
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line—- called her/
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un-cle in Ja-ma-ica,— left a/
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mes-sage– with the bak-er,— ev-en/
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checked her num-ber in the tel-e-phone/
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book;— Then I/ got so awf-‘lly wor-ried to my/
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Ba-by’s house I hur-ried, when I/
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looked in-side the ‘phone was off the/
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hook; and as I/walked up to my ba-by, then- I/
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got my ba-by’s num-ber– she was/
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bus-y in the par-lour and do-in’/fine—bus-y/
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kiss-in’ some-one else while/
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I was keep-in’ bus-y get-tin’ a/
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b-r-r-r-r, b-r-r-r-r, b-r-r-r-r,– bus-y/line–/