Key: Ab major
Verse 1
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There's a story
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told of a little Japanese
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Sitting demurely be neath
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Miss Butterfly her name
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A sweet little innocent child was she
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Till a fine young American
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from the sea
Verse 2
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They met 'neath the cherry blossoms,
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every day
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in the American way
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To love with a soul was easy
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Gaug
And he sailed away with a
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promise to return
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Verse 3
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Poor Butter fly
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'Neath the blossoms waiting
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For she
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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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And as she smiled through her tears
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Verse 4
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The moon and I
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D
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Knew that he'd be faithful
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She knew he'd come
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To a by and by
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But if he n'er came back
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She'd never sigh or cry
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D
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She just would die
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Poor Butter fly
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Interlude 1
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Gm
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Verse 5
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he n'er came back
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Dm
She'd never sigh or cry
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Db
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She just would die
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Poor Butterfly
Outro 1
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