How many of you have a kitchen utility drawer? How many of you buy your bread pre-sliced, but have a breadknife you never use? How many of you keep it in the kitchen drawer?

Usually I write my own melodies, but this is written to the tune of Waltzing Matilda

Slicing the Sourdough

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Once a shiny bread knife was dropped into a kitchen drawer
   C         C               G         G
It lay there stunned at this senseless act
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What had it done to deserve life in a kitchen drawer
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banged up and nicked and forgotten like that


C           C          F           F
Slicing the sourdough, slicing the sourdough
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You'll go slicing the sourdough with me
       C         G          Am               F
and it sang to itself as it lay there in the kitchen drawer
C         C           G              C
You'll go slicing the sourdough with me


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Weeks passed and months passed, it lay there in the kitchen drawer
C           C             G        G
dreaming of when it might be used again
       C                   G             Am            F
and it talked from time to time with the hammer in the kitchen drawer
       C           C            G               C
of the existential angst that beset things like them


Chorus

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One day a party guest brought baguettes along with cheese
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The wine flowed freely that fine day
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And the host knew that he had a bread knife in his kitchen drawer
    C         C            G             C
and pulled it out from the bottom of the bin


Chorus

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Once a dull bread knife, scratched and battered in a drawer
C           C                    G
finally was given a chance to be free
        C          G            Am              F
And the guest was aghast and he took the knife away with him
C             C              G         C
now there's a song that they sing with Chablis

Chorus