Runaround Sue

By: Dion DiMucci & Ernie Maresca
Key: D

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Here’s my sto-ry, it’s sad but true
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It’s a-bout a girl that I once knew
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She took my love then ran a-round
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With ev-‘ry sin-gle guy in town

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Hayp hayp bum-da ha-dy ha-dy
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Hayp hayp bum-da ha-dy ha-dy
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Hayp hayp bum-da ha-dy ha-dy hayp

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Ah,
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I should have known it from the ver-y start
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This girl will leave me with a brok-en heart
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Now lis-ten peo-ple what I’m tell-ing you
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A-keep a-way from-a Run-a-round Sue

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Hayp hayp bum-da ha-dy ha-dy
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Hayp hayp bum-da ha-dy ha-dy
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Hayp hayp bum-da ha-dy ha-dy hayp

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I miss her lips and the smile on her face
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The touch of her hair
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and this girl’s warm em-brace
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So if you don’t wan-na cry like I do
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A-keep a-way from-a Run-a-round Sue

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

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Ah, she likes to trav-el a-round
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She’ll love you but she’ll put you down
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Now peo-ple let me put you wise
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Sue goes out with oth-er guys

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Here’s the mor-al and the sto-ry
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from the guy who knows
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I fell in love and my love still grows
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Ask an-y fool that she ev-er knew,
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they’ll say keep a-way
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from-a Run-a-round Sue

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Hayp hayp bum-da ha-dy ha-dy
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Hayp hayp bum-da ha-dy ha-dy
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Hayp hayp bum-da ha-dy ha-dy hayp

Runaround Sue

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