Key: Bb major
Verse 1
I hope you're aware.
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some little ass.
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Hey, Miss. What's this?
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She was plain little Nellie,
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the kid from the deli.
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But mother of God,
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look what happened to Mabel.
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Mary and Joseph,
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what happened on Mabel?
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Every gesture and position that she takes
is smart and meticulous.
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Is that plain little Nellie,
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Mayball!
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on the screen is cuter than a button
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And the girl with the pickles,
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who hustled for nickels
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Is something to see,
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look what happened on Mayball!
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but today, just turn on that projector
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and Miss Avenue R
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is a regular star.
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Holy mother, McCree,
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look what happened to Mabel.
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I know I have to say goodbye
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to bagels and panishes.
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I know that you might think I'm balmy,
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but the queen of corned beef and salami
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is a glamorous goddess
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who's busted our bodice.
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Oh, jump in, St. Jude!
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Look what happened to Ma bel!
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That song is,
course, by Jerry Herman
from his show Mack and Mabel.
I spoke to Jerry just a few weeks ago
because I wanted to talk
to him about Irving Berlin.
I'd heard that Irving Berlin
had played a big role in his career in his development and he said
yes that's true that he felt and still feels that Irving Berlin
is his mentor when he was just
a very very young man
he went to see Annie Get Your Gun
for the first time
he feels that that Berlin's music
is so available
so so pure and so simple in the right way
that he was able that night
to come home after the show
and never having heard these songs before
to sit down at the piano
and he played three of them
from memory
and he said to himself
that was the moment.
At that moment I said to myself
this is what I want to do.
So this first song is by Irving Berlin
and the second is
How did you like the song?
TunerE A D G B E
ChordsAb Fm Faug Bb Eb...
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