E7AE7FdimA
I used to visit all the very gay places
E7FdimA
Those come what may places
E7AD9ACdim A7M
Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life
Fdim A7M Fdim A7M
To get the feel of life from jazz and cocktails
E7AE7FdimA
The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces
E7FdimA
With distant gay traces
E7AD9ACdim
That used to be there you could see where
A7M
They'd been washed away
Fdim A7M Fdim A7M
By too many through the day twelve o'clock tales
A7DmA7
Then you came along
DmDm7GmDm
With your siren of song to tempt me to madness
A7DmA7
I thought for a while
DmDm7GmA
That your poignant smile was tinged with the sadness
GdimFdim
Of a great love for me
GdimFdimEDm6F
Ah yes! I was wrong again, I was wrong
Melody
A#FmA#FA#6F
Life is lonely again, and only last year
A#AC#
Everything seemed so sure
CA#FmA#
Now life is awful again
FA#6FA#AC#A trough full of hearts could only be a bore.
FBFBA week in Paris could ease
A#A#m9A#CdimA#m9
The bite of it, all I care is to smile in spite of it
A#A#m9A#F7A#6
I'll forget you, I will, while yet you are
FA#AC#
Still burning inside my brain
FFdimFdimA#F7/13
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive
A#9CdimA#Gm7Gdim
So I'll live a lush life in some small dive
A#A#mCdimA#F7/13
And there I'll be, while I rot with the rest
F7D#E7F7F#7F7GdimA#
Of those whose lives are lonely, too
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