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