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