Key: Bb major
Verse 1
Bialystock, ya got a postcard.
A postcard? From where?
Brazil.
Brazil? Who do I know in Brazil?
Dear Max,
Rio is everything you said it was and more.
Ulla and I think of you
Every chance we get. In the morning, when we
have breakfast on our terrace,
Many different herrings. And in the evening, when we
samba together in the moonlight.
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F#
it's almost eleven.
Wish you were here, Leo
You pulled a sneak attack
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Abdim
Then you stabbed me in the back
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Gaug
G
Betrayed!
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G
Bm
Oh boy, I'm so betrayed!
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Bm
Bdim
Bm
Bdim
Bm
Fdim
Bm
Like Samson and Delilah
Your love began to fade
I'm crying in the hoosegow
You're in Rio getting laid!
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Bm
F#
Let's face it, I'm betrayed!
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Bm
B
C#dim
Em
Boy, have I been taken
C#
F#
Oy, I'm so for saken
Everything is lost
Max is double- crossed!
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C#dim
I'm so dismayed
Em
F#
Bm
Did I mention I'm betrayed?
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G#m
A
I used to be the king
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G#m
G#
G#m
But now I am the fool
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G#m
E
G#m
A
A captain without a ship
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Bm
G#
A rabbi without a shul!
G#m
Bm
Now I'm about to go to jail
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F#
I have no one who I can cry to
No one I can say goodbye
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to
I'm drowning! I'm drowning here!
I'm going down for the last time.
I- I- I see my whole life flashing before
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Ab
Farmhouse with a white picket fence.
I'm running through fields of
Alfalfa with my collie, Rex. Stop it,
Rex! I see my mother standing
On the back porch, in a worn but clean gingham gown,
and I hear her
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"Alvin! Don't forget your chores. The wood needs
E
A- cordin and the cows need a- milkin'. Alvin,
life. I'm not a hillbilly.
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Bm
I grew up in the Bronx. Leo's
taken everything. Even my past!
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Bbm
C#
F#
But wait... now I remember
How did it begin?
He walked into my office
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Bm
You can make more money
With a flop than with a hit
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B
Bm
"We can do it, we can do it"
"I can't do it"
A
Bm
"We can do it!"
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Cdim
Lord, I want that money!
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Bm
"Come on, Leo, we can do it!"
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Bm
A
Step one, find the play!
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Cm
Bm
See it, swirl it, touch it, kiss it!
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F#
Hello, Mister Liebkind
"Guten Tag, hop clop
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F#
Adolf Elizabeth Hitler?
"Guten Tag, hop clop
"Guten Tag, hop clop!"
keep it..."
Ulla!
Oooh wah wah woo- woo- wah- wah
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D
A
Bm
Step three, raise the money
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A
"Along came Bialy!"
Bm
Bm
Intermission!
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Bm
"A wandering minstrel I,
A think of shreds and...
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E
Em
Bm
Next! That's our Hitler!
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Em
"Opening night!"
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A
Good luck, good luck, good luck
Am
A
Break a leg! I broke my leg!
Bm
A
"S pringtime for Hitler
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and Germany!"
A surprise smash!
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F
Cm
"Springtime for Hitler and Germany!
It'll run for years!
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Cm
"Where did we go right?
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C#dim
C#m
Where did we go right?"
Edim
Em
Fat, fat, fatty!
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D#
Edim
Gim me those books
Bm
Edim
Books, fat
Books, fat
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G
Then you ran to Rio
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F#
G
You're banging Ulla on the beach!
Was betrayed by Brutus
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Cm
C#dim
C#m
Who'd think an accountant
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Cm
I'm so dis mayed
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G
Is this how I'm repaid?
To be...
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Cm
Cm
Be trayed!
BETRAYED!!
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# G Cm Bm Abdim...
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