Poor Butterfly chords by Tony Bennett
Verse 1
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C
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C
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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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the cherry blossom trees
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C
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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
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To her garden came
Verse 2
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They met 'neath the cherry blossoms,
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every day
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And he taught her how to love
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in the American way
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Am
To love with a soul was easy
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to learn
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Eaug
And he sailed away with a
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promise to return
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Verse 3
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Am
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Poor Butterfly
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'Neath the blossoms waiting
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Poor Butterfly
Cdim
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Ebaug
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For she
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loved him so
Am
D
The moments pass into hours
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F#
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Em
The hours pass into years
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A
And as she smiled through her tears
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She murmured low
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C
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Verse 4
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Eb
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The moon and I
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Knew that he'd be faithful
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She knew he'd come
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E
Bm
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To a by and by
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But if he n'er came back
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Bm
She'd never sigh or cry
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B
Am
C
She just would die
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Poor Butter fly
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Bm
Ebaug
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Interlude 1
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Em
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Asus4
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Gdim
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Em
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Ebdim
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F#
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But if
Verse 5
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he n'er came back
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Bm
She'd never sigh or cry
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Bb
Am
C
She just would die
D
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Poor Butterfly
Outro 1
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Cm
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Poor Butterfly
Tony Bennett
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