Got The Gate On The Golden Gate chords by Peggy Lee

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Verse 1
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Do you realize that better
than a million people
cross the New York City
bridges every day?
The Triborough, the Williamsburg,
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the Brooklyn Bridge,
and there's a great George Washington
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to send them on their way.
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Manhattan, Manhattan,
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the Silk and the Satin,
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QC and Park Avenue there.
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The uptown, the downtown,
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the running around town,
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and all the citizens do there.
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There is no
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denying it's exciting,
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but we know a town
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that's more inviting.
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There have been lots of songs
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written about San Francisco.
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This is not one of them,
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nor do they go the way that this
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goes.
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We're not about to tell you of her hills,
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or her cable cars,
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or    her many thrills, but
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Instead, we thought we
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would take a chance
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An  d brief you on how she stacks
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up in romance
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Went for a walk one day alone
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Down around the bay, I guess
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You could say that it was fate
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How else could I   have met my love on
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the Golden Gate?
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She strolled along the bridge
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and she was the cutest pigeon
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Gee, did you never palpitate?
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Well, you'd have swooned
to see her there
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on the Golden Gate
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He looked into her eyes
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and foggy skies were clear
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And just when I
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thought love was near,
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what a switch -alarm
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Came a limousine away,
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sped my pretty queen
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alas I'm too little and too late
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And that's what happens to you
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when you don't rate.
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I  had no gold and got the gate
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on the Golden Gate.
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He  didn't have a penny
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so he couldn't ask her out
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for any coffee.
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And at the Papagaya room
we're telling this to you
so you may understand.
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That's what happens
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when you don't write.
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He had no gold and got the gate,