Key: F major
Verse 1
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Louisa was a movie queen
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Before she'd achieved
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the age of sweet sixteen
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Long before Cagney threw those
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girls about
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Little Louisa tossed her curls about
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Later when the talkies came
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The whole world resounded
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to her fame
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Each time she married
Every daily paper carried
Headlines blazing her name
Not only headlines
But photographs and interviews
Every thing she did was news
that held the world in thrall
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Some say she read lines better than
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Marléne could
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No other entertainer could
Compete with her at all
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But regardless of the fact
That she could sing and dance
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and act
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And owned furniture that wasn't
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"Little Rockery"
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And regardless of her gems,
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which were hers not MGM's
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Her life was one long mockery
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Verse 2
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Louisa was terribly lonely
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Sucess brought her naught
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but despair
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She derived little fun
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From the oscars she'd won
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And none
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From her home in Bel Aire
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She said she was weary of living
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On this bestial, terrestrial plane
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Edim
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When friends came to vis it
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Their hands she would clutch
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Crying, "Tell me why is it
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I suf fer so much?
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Oh, if only, if only, if only
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My life wasn't quite such a strain."
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And soon after that she
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was terribly lonely
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All over again
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Verse 3
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Louisa was terribly lonely
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Louisa was terribly sad
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It ap pears that the cheers
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that had rung in her ears
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For years had been driving her mad
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She sobbed when men
offered her sables
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And moaned when they gave
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her champagne
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She remarked to her groom
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on their honeymoon night
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As he tenderly kissed her and
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switched off the light
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"Oh, If only, if only, if only
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I'd flung myself out of
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Edim
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that plane..."
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And the very next day she
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was terribly lonely
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All over again
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Verse 4
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Louisa was terribly lonely
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(The girl had no fun)
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Louisa was tired of it all
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(Not a call from anyone)
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She gazed like a dazed, frustrated sphinx
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At her hundred and eight
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new tated minx
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And she wrung her hands
And she beat her breast
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Crying, "My, my, my,
I'm so depressed."
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Nobody knew the troubles
she'd seen
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Nobody knew, but you- know- who
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The tribula tions of a movie queen
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So, farewell
Verse 5
to lovely Louisa
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(We'll just let life tease her.)
Let's leave her searching
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in vain
(Find someone to explain.)
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Why destiny
Singled her out to be
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Only
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Lonely
Over and over again
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