Key: D major
Verse 1
D
C
D
C
Applause, applause,
Em
G
It means when it is striking us
D
G
The audience is liking us
Em
C
Our work demands
D
G
Ebdim
You don't sit on your hands
D
C#dim
And if the hand's tremendous
Edim
F
Dm
You send us
You keep us all alive
G
Em
With bravo and bravissimo
G
Dm
We're dead if it's pianissimo
Eb
Ab
G
Our quirk is work,
Ebdim
Ab
B
is work we never shirk
Em
Ebdim
Em
In a happy land of tinsel and gauze
Because
D
G
D
G
We like applause
Eb
G
Em
G
Eb
D
G
Whether you're
D
G
a Swiss bow -ringer
Or a crooner
Or a singer
Or monologist ventriloquist or what?
Abdim
D
Or a dog act or magician
Or a musical song musician
G
D
Or an ingenue or pianist who is hot.
D
G
Little Eva, or Othello,
Having heard the call,
G
Em
And what better reward
Em
D
Than the sound we consider super?
G
Dm
G
Could mean a raise in salary.
Em
C
Give out. Give in.
D
Em
The manager, he ought us.
F
Dm
Applaud us.
D
C
We won renown when opening out of town
D
Em
in Boston and in Rockaway.
G
Dm
Eb
They heard applause a block away.
Ab
G
If we've come through,
Em
Ab
B
give credit where it's due
Ebdim
Em
unwritten laws
G
G
D
G
Because We like our plots.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD C Em G Ebdim...
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