Yodelling Gilbert & Sullivan chords by Mary schneider

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Em
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F#m
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Verse 1
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C 
When I was a girl and in my teens
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C 
I knew I'd inherited soprano genes
My mother sang lyric,
my father sang bass
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Harmonizing in the kitchen was
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commonplace
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G 
Harmonizing in the kitchen was commonplace
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I practiced and practiced so carefully
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C 
An opera singer I was go ing to be
She practised and practised so carefully
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G 
An opera singer she was
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going to be
Auditioning down at the Met
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First with   a trio, then a string quartet
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C 
My big chance came on the radio
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G 
On a national talent quest I had to go
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G 
On a national talent quest she had to go
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A nice conductor said
he'd make me a star
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C 
When I sang for Niculae Fu nicula
A nice conductor said
he'd make her a star
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G 
C 
When she sang for Niculae Fu
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nicula
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I've sung Mimi  by Puccini
and Lucia in Dilemma
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More Delilah and Aida,
Rigoletto and Il Trovatore
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Butterfly and Carmen,
Baccaro by Jackie Offenbach
B 
Even St. Nephala in La Scala, oh, what a luck
I take a breath, I lift my voice
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and feel my body bigger grow
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Give a great performance for Susannah,
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Mary Pickerell
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When Marguerite would rant
and rave
and scream at Mephistopheles
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C 
The opera house would shudder
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at my power and verbosity
The opera house would shudder
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B 
F#m 
at her power and verbosity
B 
My voice began to crackle
when my vocal chords had
Em 
lost their grip
D 
Libretto turned falsetto
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and my tonsils did a backward flip
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Audience applauded and they cheered
with wild ovationing
Em 
C 
I   broke into a yodeling
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F# 
B 
Lo dee dee oh dee dee oh dee dee oh
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Lo ee oh ee oh ee oh
B 
Lo ee oh ee oh ee oh
Lo dee oh dee oh ee
Lo dee dee oh oh audience cheers
B 
I was a star! audience
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B 
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Wuan Wan
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Though thou hast surely strayed,
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E 
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Pretty o 'er, pretty o  'er,
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poor wandering one,
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And now I am victorious!
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E 
The critics think she's glorious!
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I'm the celebrated, dedicated,
syncopated,
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liberated, venerated, intubated,
faded, intoxicated,
Overrated, activated,
cultivated, titillated,
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A 
yodel -ee -pray -my -don -don!
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A 
Yodel -ee -pray -my -don -don!
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