Chords with lyrics
...EMMA... by Hot Chocolate
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*Released 1974*
Intro:
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Verse 1:
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We were together since we were five,
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She was so pretty; Emma was a star in everyone's eyes,
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And when she said she'd be a movie queen, nobody laughed,
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Her face like an angel; she could be anything.
Chorus 1:
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Emmalene, Emma, Emmalene,
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I'm gonna write your name high on that silver screen.
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Emmalene, Emma, Emmalene,
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I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen.
Interlude:
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Verse 2:
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At seventeen, we were wed,
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And worked day and night to earn our daily bread.
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And every day Emma would go out searching for that play,
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That never ever came her way.
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You know sometimes she'd come home so depressed,
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I'd hear her crying in the back room, feeling so distressed.
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And I'd remember back when she was five,
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To the words that used to make Emmalene come alive. It was...
Chorus 2:
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Emmalene, Emma, Emmalene,
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I'm gonna write your name high on that silver screen.
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Emmalene, Emma, Emmalene,
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I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen.
Interlude:
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Verse 3:
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It was cold and dark De-cember night,
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When I opened the bedroom door,
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To find her lying still and cold up-on the bed;
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A majorA love letter lying on the bedroom floor.
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It read; "Darling, I love you,
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But I just can't keep on living on dreams no more".
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"I tried so very hard not to leave you alone;
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I just can't keep on tryin' no more".
Coda:
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Emma-lene,
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Oh, Emmalene.
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Emmalene...
(Fade)
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2014 ([email protected])
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