Rub a Dub Dub Song Lyrics and Chords by Hank Thompson
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Once upon a time in a nursery rhyme three little men got
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lost
Like
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you and me they couldn't agree and upon the waves the
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I'll sing their tune cause they got marooned with a love I can
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€™t
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Now the
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three little men just took min in on an ocean of
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regret
With a rub-a-dub-dub three men in the tub lost on the ocean
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blue
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row like a hub sang
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rub-a-dub-dub cause you
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broke my heart in
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Well I can't reach shore and my heart is sore and I'm driftin'
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far
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From the
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love I had and I'm feelin' mighty bad and I can't go on t
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his
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Won't you throw out the line and say you're mine and take me b
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ack
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Cause my
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rudder's broke and it ain't no joke won't you reach and pu
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ll me in
Well I knew right away there'd never come a day when I'd reach l
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and
again
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one I adore on the distance shore is now at the rainbow'
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s
end
To the three little guys I turned my eyes won't you tell your names t
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Well
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one said fate one said hate and the other said
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jealousy
FAQ
Who sang the the song Rub a Dub Dub?
- The song Rub a Dub Dub was sang by Hank Thompson.
Who is Hank Thompson?
- Henry William Thompson (September 3, 1925 - November 6, 2007) was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades.
Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky-tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar, and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals.
His backing band, The Brazos Valley Boys, was voted the top Country Western Band for 14 years in a row by Billboard. Thompson pursued a "light" version of the Western swing sound that Bob Wills and others played the primary difference between his music and that of Bob Wills was that Thompson, who used the swing beat and instrumentation to enhance his vocals, discouraged the intense instrumental soloing from his musicians that Wills encouraged however, the "Hank Thompson sound" exceeded Bob Wills in top-40 country hits.
Although not as prominent on the top country charts in later decades, Thompson remained a recording artist and concert draw well into his 80s.
The 2013 game Grand Theft Auto V featured his song "It Don't Hurt Anymore" in the fictional radio show, Rebel Radio.
The 1987 novel Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb was inspired by Thompson's life, specifically by his practice of picking up a local band to back him when he toured. In 2009, Cobb's novel was turned into a successful film directed by Scott Cooper and starring Jeff Bridges in an Academy Award-winning performance.
