Nero-Fats Waller

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[00:00.00]Nero - Fats Waller
[00:04.66]Nero was a king you know
[00:06.76]Many many years ago
[00:08.80]Nero loved his music so
[00:10.91]Bought a fiddle and a bow
[00:13.04]Room enough for Nero
[00:15.25]No he never was a hero
[00:17.23]Rome was burnt to zero
[00:19.16]Still he fiddled away
[00:21.27]To his soldiers he said
[00:23.27]"I'm busy having a big time
[00:25.27]With my Latin in jig time
[00:27.40]What survives today
[00:29.36]So Nero never went to town
[00:31.65]While Rome was burning down
[00:33.68]They watched him in dismay
[00:35.52]Fiddle fiddle fiddle away
[00:37.37]Oh Rome meant nothin' to Nero
[00:39.48]He was never a hero
[00:41.39]He must have been a zero
[00:43.33]'Cause he fiddled away
[00:45.22]Now listen
[00:46.12]Nero spent some of his dough
[00:47.98]For a fiddle and a bow
[00:49.87]That's how Nero made his name
[00:51.73]Landed in the Hall Of Fame
[00:53.40]Come on Nero
[00:54.27](yes )
[01:36.38](oh stop Nero you fiddling now don't do that )
[02:08.31](yes ha-ha )
[02:15.40]Rome meant nothing to Nero
[02:17.02]He never was a hero
[02:18.75]Rome fell to zero
[02:20.89]'Cause he fiddled away
[02:23.03]Nero spent some of his dough
[02:25.25]Fiddle and a bow
[02:27.39]That's how he made his name
[02:29.19]Landed in the Hall Of Fame
[02:38.22]Come in Nero I got you