When Movies Were Movies chords by Jerry Herman
Verse 1
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Movies were movies
when you paid a dime to
escape them
Cheering the hill
and hissing the man in the keep
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Romance, action and thrills
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Partner, there's gold in them hills
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Movies were movies
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when during the titles you know
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You'd get a happy ending,
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dozens of blundering cops
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in a thundering chase
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Getting a bang out of lemon meringue
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in the face
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Bandits attacking a train,
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one little tramp with a cane
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Movies were movies were movies
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when I ran the show
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Movies were movies
when Pauline was tied to the track
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After she trudged through the ice
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with a paper on her back
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The girls at the seashore would stand
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All in a row in the sand
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Roving their stockings an inch
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and a quarter below
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The line of decency
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in Swanson and Keaton
And Dressler and William S. Hart
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No one pretended that what
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we were doing was art
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We had some guts and some luck
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We were just making a buck
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Movies were movies
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were movies
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when I ran the show
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And Swanson and Keaton
and Dressler and William S. Hart
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No one pretended
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that what we were doing was art
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We had some guts and some luck,
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but we weren't just
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making a buck!
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Movies were movies were movies
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when I ran the show!
Outro 1
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When Movies Were Movies
Jerry Herman
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