Key: Gb major
Verse 1
D
Words and Music
France in 1918.
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It was written to amuse a group of
English and American aviators
who were fault -bound in the harbor.
A group of Barbados sailors
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I had been singing something
about a girl they had met in Venezuela,
and this is all it took
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I met her in Venezuela
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with a basket on her head.
If she had met others,
she did not say what I knew she'd do
to pass away,
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to pass away the time in Venezuela.
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D
I gave her a silken sash of blue,
a silken sash of blue,
because I thought that she would do,
with all the tricks I knew she knew,
to pass away the time in Venezuela,
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to pass away of the time
but the thought of her smile,
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will taunt me and haunt me
for many a mile,
for she was my girl,
and she helped the world
to pass away the time in
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Venezuela.
And when the wind was off to sea,
The wind was off to sea,
And she was a -takin' leave of me
I said, cheer up, they'll always be
Sailors ashore with leave in Venezuela
Sailors ashore with leave in
Venezuela
I'll be back, I'll be back
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBm D Gm G F#m...
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