Key: Ab major
Verse 1
B
E
B
E
B
There's a story
E
B
E
told of a little Japanese
Bsus4
E
Sitting demurely be neath
E
B
E
B
Miss Butterfly her name
E
B
A sweet little innocent child was she
E
B
Till a fine young American
E
Bsus4
from the sea
Verse 2
D#m
C#m
They met 'neath the cherry blossoms,
D#m
C#m
every day
C#sus4
C#m
D#m
in the American way
E
C#m
To love with a soul was easy
E
G#aug
And he sailed away with a
E
F#sus4
promise to return
F#
Verse 3
E
F#
E
C#m
F#
Poor But terfly
B
F#
B
'Neath the blossoms waiting
Edim
Em
Gaug
D#
For she
Gdim
G#
D#
loved him so
C#m
F#
The moments pass into hours
Gdim
A#
B
G#m
The hours pass into years
G#
C#
And as she smiled through her tears
C#
E
C#m
Verse 4
F#
D#m
G#
C#m
E
G
F#
The moon and I
C#m
D#
B
F#
B
Knew that he'd be faithful
D#aug
Em
D#
She knew he'd come
Gdim
D#
G#
D#m
G#
Daug
G#
To a by and by
C#m
A
But if he n'er came back
A#dim
B
D#m
She'd never sigh or cry
B
D#
C#m
E
She just would die
Gdim
B
Poor Butter fly
A
D#m
Gaug
G
Interlude 1
C#m
F#
B
F#
B
G#m
B
D#
D#m
A#
E
D#
F#
D#m
G#
D#m
G#
C#m
E
Gdim
B
F#
D#m
G#m
C#m
G#sus4
C#m
C#sus4
C#
Bdim
F#
C#m
F#
D#m
G#
C#m
G#m
D#
F#
Gdim
B
A#
Bdim
D#
G#
Verse 5
C#m
A
he n'er came back
B
D#m
She'd never sigh or cry
B
D
C#m
E
She just would die
F#
B
Poor Butterfly
Outro 1
B
Em
B
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