Only for Americans chords by Irving berlin
Verse 1
C
Countess, you're my pal.
Hey, we gotta celebrate. What? Yeah, first the Montmartre,
then the Moulin Rouge,
the Follies -Bergeres.
Not at all. Horace,
you need somebody to guide you,
to guard you here in Paris.
Uh, not Montmartre?
G
Dm
C
No. Not the Moulin Rouge?
No. Not the Follies -Bergeres?
G
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
C
They are only for Americans.
B
The midnight life of gay Paris,
G
Dm
A
the Frenchman he would never see,
Dm
that's only for Americans.
A
Dm
The prices in the Smart Café,
G
the Frenchman he would never pay,
Em
Ebdim
the price that's more
Dm
Em
is only for Americans
Dm
G
C
from the USA.
G
C
A Montmartre lady drops her hanky
G
C
and slyly winks her eye,
B
that's only for the Yankee,
Em
C
G
the Frenchman wouldn't buy.
C
Only for Americans
B
The Frenchmen on the boulevards
G
Bb
Don't buy those dirty
A
postal cards
Dm
They're only for Americans
The little holes for peeping through
G
C
To see what naughty people do
Edim
The French would war
A
Dm
F
They're only for Americ
C
Em
G
Ebdim
ans from the USA
Dm
C
Only for Americans
B
The shops with many real an tiques,
C
Dm
A
antiques as old as seven weeks,
Dm
are only for Americans.
A
D
Dm
The bed on which a king made love,
G
which there are several dozens of,
Em
C
Ebdim
the French, hoo, hoo.
Dm
G
We sell them to Americans
Em
G
C
from the USA.
G
C
We buy your worn out mink and sables
G
C
and fix them up like new.
B
Then simply change the labels
Em
G
and sell them back to you.
C
for Americans.
A Frenchman wouldn't be impressed
B
Bb
A
to see a show with girls
undressed.
Dm
That's only for Americans.
A
The French don't go to
Dm
naked shows.
G
They've seen what's
underneath the clothes.
C
A
Dm
F
C
And each encore is only for Americans
Ebdim
G
C
Em
C
E
from the USA.
G
C
Dm
G
C
Only for Americans
B
A Frenchman's food is very plain
Dm
A
Those fancy sauces with tomatoes
Dm
Are only for Americans
D
A Frenchman seldom eats the snails
G
With little ounces on their tails
F
C
Ebdim
Dm
And all that cheese was made
to please
G
C
Americans from the U .S .A.
B
While the American carouses,
E
B
E
where crimson shadows creep,
D#
The French avoid those houses,
G#m
B
they go to bed to sleep.
E
Only for Americans!
D#
The season starts, they come to town,
E
D#
they turn the city upside down.
E
A
We use their Yankee Doodle Dough
E
A
G
F#m
B
to clean up Paris when they go.
E
C#m
But we can't do without them,
F#m
we're simply mad about them,
A
the Americans.
The Americans!
B
A
E
C#m
E
The The Americans of the U .S .A.!
Only for Americans
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