Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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A
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Dm
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F#m
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D
C
F#m
I used to visit all the very gay places,
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D
those come what may places,
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D
C
where one relaxes on the axis of the
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F#m
wheel of life to get the feel of life.
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A
From jazz and cocktails
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Bb
D
Asus4
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The girls I
knew had sad and sullen gray faces
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D
with distinct gay traces
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D
C
That used to be there you could see where they'd been washed away by
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Eb
A
D
Ddim
too many through the day twelve o 'clock tales
with your siren song
to tempt me to madness
C#
F#m
I thought for a while
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C#
was tinged with the sadness of
Em
A
C
a great love for me
B
Em
F#m
Ah, yes, I was wrong
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F
D
A
Again, I was wrong
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Eb
D
Life is lonely again,
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D
and only last year everything
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Fm
seemed so sure.
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D
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D
Now life is aw ful again,
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D
C#
F#m
a truffle of hearts could only be a bore.
D
Dm
A
E
A week in Paris will
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D
Bb
ease the bite of it
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C
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C#
D
All I care is to smile in spite of it
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D
I'll forget you, I will,
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D
C#
C
B
F#dim
Bm
B
while yet you are still burning inside my brain
Em
Gm
Romances mush,
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F#m
stifling those who strive
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C
F#dim
I'll live a lush life in some small dive
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Em
D
C
Bb
And there I'll be while I rot
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with the rest of those
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whose lives are lonely,
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D
Bm
E
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Ddim
Fdim
too
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C
Romance is much stifling
D
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D
C#
I'll live a lush life in some small night
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D
And there I'll be while I rot
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B
Bb
D
C
With the rest of those whose lives
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D
Fsus4
The are lowly
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E
too
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E
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