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You Never Knew about Me chords by Jerome kern

  • D

  • Em

  • A

  • C#

    4
  • E

  • C

  • F

  • F#

    2
  • G

  • Bm

    2
  • B

    2
  • Ab

    4
  • Eb

    6
  • Cm

    3
  • Bbm

  • Absus4

    4
  • Bb

  • Ebm

    6
  • Fm

  • F#m

    2
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Verse 1
(D major) (E minor) (A major) (D major) We were children (A major) once long ago,
dear (D major) you and I.
At the (C sharp major) start our (D major) lives lay apart
(A major) as lives will lie.
Up I grew (C sharp major) and I (E major) never knew
that (A major) the world con (C major) tained a
(F major) darling like (E major) you.
Nor did (C sharp major) you dream
(F sharp major) you would (D major) see little (E major) me, too, (A major) by and by.
(D major) I never (E major) knew about (A major) you, dear,
and (D major) you never knew about (A major) me.
Life might have been (D major) heaven
if I (A major) then, age seven,
had (D major) but met you when you were (A major) three.
We'd have made mud
(D major) pies like (G major) affinities.
We'd have (B minor) known (E major) what rapture (A major) may be,
I'd (D major) have let you feed my rabbit
till the (G major) thing became a (D major) habit, dear.
But I (A major) never knew about (D major) you,
or what might (B major) have been,
And (E minor) you never (A major) knew about (D major) me. (A flat major)
How (C sharp major) I wish I'd known, dear,
that one day you'd arrive,
just to (C major) feel I (C sharp major) had an ideal for
(A flat major) which to strive.
Had (C sharp major) I known I'd meet you my own,
(E flat major) I would (A flat major) not have (B major) lived for pleasure (E major) alone.
(E flat major) I was (C minor) frivol (F major) ous and (B flat minor) gay, sad (E flat major) to say,
when (A flat major) I was five.
(C sharp major) I (E flat major) nev er knew about you, (A flat major) dear,
(C sharp major) and you (E flat major) never knew about me. (A flatsus4)
(A flat major) I never (C sharp major) missed chances of juvenile dances,
for (B flat minor) my life was (E flat major) one bad (A flat major) spree.
I was often (C sharp major) kissed neath a (F sharp major) mistletoe
by small boys ex (E flat major) cited with (A flat major) tea.
(C sharp major) If I'd known that (F major) you existed,
I'd have (F sharp major) scratched them and
(C sharp major) resisted, dear.
But (A flat major) I never knew about (C sharp major) you,
oh, the pain (B flat major) of it.
(B flat minor) An d you (E flat minor) never (A flat major) knew about (C sharp major) me.
(F sharp major) (F minor) (F sharp major) (F sharp minor) (A flat major) (C sharp major)
(C sharp major) You
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