G7               C7             G7 
Number nine will put you on the spot 
C7          Eb9                  G7 
Number nine will tie you up, oh, in a knot 
D7 
When you're trying 
            C7 
Multiplying by nine 
G7 
You might give it everything you've got 
             C7 
And still be stopped 
G7                 Cm7        EbM7#11     Em7 
If you don't know some secret way you can check on 
F9                F#9     G7      Abmaj7 G7    
You'll break your neck on Naughty number nine 
G7 
Now the first thing to keep in mind 
C9 
When you're multiplying by nine 
G7 
Is that it's one less than ten 
G7 
You see, nine is the same as ten minus one 
C9 
So you could multiply your number by ten 
C7 
And then subtract the number from the result 
G7 
And you'd get the same product 

As if you'd multiplied by nine 

And you knew it 
        D7 
I mean, eight times nine is 80 minus eight 
    C9 
And seven times nine is 70 minus seven 
G7 
And six times nine is 60 minus six 
C7 
You could use those tricks 
G7                    Cm7        Ebm    Em7 
Because you must have some secret way you can beat it 
F9      F#9 
Or else you'll meet it 
G7   Abmaj7  G7         F9 
With naughty number nine 
G7          Abmaj7 
Of course, it doesn't hurt  
G7 
To know the table of nines by memory 
D7 
It goes like this: 
G7                    C7                      G7 
One times nine is nine, and two times nine is 18 
 G7 
(Mean ol' number nine) 
 C7                     Eb9                    G7 
Three times nine is 27, and four times nine is 36 
D7                     C7  
Five times nine is 45, and six times nine is 54 
G7                      C7 
And seven times nine is 63 
G7                      Eb9                    G7 
Eight times nine is 72, and nine times nine is 81 
F9             F#9    G7 
And ten times nine is 90 
G7                   Abm7    
Now the digit sum is always equal to nine 
G7 
I mean, if you add two and seven, the digits 
F9 
You get nine, the digit sum 
       Abm7 
That's true of any product of nine 
A9                    D7 
If they don't add up, you've made a mistake 
G7                    Cm7         EbM7#11     Em7 
Because you must have some secret way you can check it 
F9      F#9 
Or else you'll wreck it 
G7            Abm7   A9       Ab7    G9 
With naughty, nasty, mean old number nine