Poor Butterfly chords by Al Jolson
Verse 1
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A
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Mr. LeVant, Mr. LeVant,
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I wish you wouldn't have
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this attitude towards me.
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This is a new show
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and I
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want to be chummy. me.
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You make me feel like I'm not wanted.
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I know you're a big successful musician,
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and that you go around
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with a lot of important people
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who I wouldn't mention
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for fear of mispronouncing their names.
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But you know,
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I'm not a bad boy.
You know that underneath
a smooth exterior,
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I got a rough interior,
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Oscar, Oscar!
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C
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Please, let me call you Oscar.
Dm
All right, Al.
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Call me Oscar.
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I don't even know
D
if I want to talk to you now.
... Oh, come on, Al.
Please, please call me Oscar.
Dm
Well, it isn't a matter of just
a name.
D
I want you to be like you used to be.
Oh, I see.
You want me to be myself.
Oh, no!
Don't go that far!
That's the very thing Toscanini objected
to.
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You know what I mean, Oscar.
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You used to sit at the piano
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an d play a chord or two.
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And I would sing.
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Oh, yes, I remember.
And I loved it.
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Poor butterfly
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Neath the blossoms waiting
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Poor Butterfly,
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for she loved him so.
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The moments pass into hours,
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the hours pass into years,
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an d as she smiles through her tears,
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she mur murs, low.
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The moon and I know
that he'll be faithful.
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I'm sure he'll come
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to me by and by.
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But if If she don't come back,
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then I never sigh or cry.
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I just must die, poor butterfly.
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Love
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Poor Butterfly
Al Jolson
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