Key: Ab major
Verse 1
F#
B
F#
B
F#
There's a story
B
F#
B
told of a little Japanese
F#sus4
B
Sitting demurely be neath
B
F#
B
F#
Miss Butterfly her name
B
F#
A sweet little innocent child was she
B
F#
Till a fine young American
B
F#sus4
from the sea
Verse 2
A#m
G#m
They met 'neath the cherry blossoms,
A#m
G#m
every day
G#sus4
G#m
A#m
in the American way
B
G#m
To love with a soul was easy
B
D#aug
And he sailed away with a
B
C#sus4
promise to return
C#
Verse 3
B
C#
B
G#m
C#
Poor But terfly
F#
C#
F#
'Neath the blossoms waiting
Bdim
Bm
Daug
A#
For she
Ddim
D#
A#
loved him so
G#m
C#
The moments pass into hours
Ddim
E#
F#
D#m
The hours pass into years
D#
G#
And as she smiled through her tears
G#
B
G#m
Verse 4
C#
A#m
D#
G#m
B
D
C#
The moon and I
G#m
A#
F#
C#
F#
Knew that he'd be faithful
A#aug
Bm
A#
She knew he'd come
Ddim
A#
D#
A#m
D#
Aaug
D#
To a by and by
G#m
E
But if he n'er came back
E#dim
F#
A#m
She'd never sigh or cry
F#
A#
G#m
B
She just would die
Ddim
F#
Poor Butter fly
E
A#m
Daug
D
Interlude 1
G#m
C#
F#
C#
F#
D#m
F#
A#
A#m
E#
B
A#
C#
A#m
D#
A#m
D#
G#m
B
Ddim
F#
C#
A#m
D#m
G#m
D#sus4
G#m
G#sus4
G#
F#dim
C#
G#m
C#
A#m
D#
G#m
D#m
A#
C#
Ddim
F#
E#
F#dim
A#
D#
Verse 5
G#m
E
he n'er came back
F#
A#m
She'd never sigh or cry
F#
A
G#m
B
She just would die
C#
F#
Poor Butterfly
Outro 1
F#
Bm
F#
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