Key: C major
Verse 1
B
G#m
B
F#
B
There's a story
told of a little Japanese
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Miss Butterfly, her name
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F#
B
A sweet little innocent child was she
Till a fine young American
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F#
F#sus4
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From the sea to her garden came
Ddim
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C#m
They met neath the cherry
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D#m
And he taught her to love
G#
B
the American way,
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C#m
it was easy to learn.
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G#
a promise to return.
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F#
G#m
C#m
Poor Butterfly
Eaug
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F#m
F#
B
Neath the blossoms waiting
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B
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E
D#
Poor butterfly,
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G#
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G#
for she loved him so.
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C#m
The moments pass into hours
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F#sus4
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A#
The hours pass
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G#m
into years
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G#
C#
And as she smiles through her tears,
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G
F#m
she mur murs low,
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C#m
Eaug
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The moon and I know
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F#
B
that he is faithful
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E
C#m
E
B
G#m
B
F#m
Fdim
E
I'm sure he'll come to me,
D#
D#m
D#
G#
D#m
G#
by and by
D#dim
G#
C#m
D#m
But if he don't come back
E
A
B
D#m
I won't ever sigh or
Fm
Edim
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cry
Ddim
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G#
I just must die
Cdim
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F#
B
Poor butterfly
C#m
F#sus4
E
F#
said the little Japanese,
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F#
Tell him I'm waiting neath the
B
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F#
cherry blossom trees,
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F#sus4
B
E
my sailor man to sea.
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B
The bees and hummingbirds say they
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F#m
guess every day that passes
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makes one day less till he comes
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A#aug
Ddim
to me.
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C#m
D#m
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For once butterfly gives her heart away.
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D
She can never love again.
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F#m
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She is his forever.
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C#m
For all of this world through ages to come.
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C#m
So her face just smiles,
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G#
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F#
though her heart is growing num b.
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C#m
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G#
The moon and I know
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F#
B
that he is faithful
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B
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B
A#dim
C#m
Oh, we're sure he'll come to me,
E
D#
A#dim
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G#
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by an d by
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Em
But if he don't come back,
A
B
Fm
Edim
D#m
I won't ever sigh or cry
C#dim
C#m
I just must die
Poor Butterfly
B
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