Lydia The Tattooed Lady chords by Soundtracks

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Lydia The Tattooed Lady
Music by Harold Arlen
Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg

As sung by J. Cheever Loophole (Groucho Marx) in "At the Circus"

Note: MP2 and WAV versions of this song can be found at:
http://mems.ee.cornell.edu/~mbw/lydia.html

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(Intro dialog)
Chico: Folks, I wanna you should meet my pal,
    my *best* friend. (What's your name again?)

Groucho: Loophole.

Chico: Glad to know ya.

Groucho: It's your pleasure.

Ah this meeting brings back memories--
childhood days! lemonade!! romance!

My life was wrapped around the circus--
her name was Lydia. I met her at the World's
Fair in 1900, marked down from 1940. Ah Lydia.

(ad lib sung/spoken)
She was the most glorious creature under the sun.
Weiss(?)!, DuBarry(?)! Garbo! Rolled into one.

Ahhhhh...


C majorC
Lydia, ..
          G+G
Lydia ..
FF    C majorC     FF    C majorC
She ..
FF   DmDm  FF  DmDm
And a ..
C majorC
Lydia, ..
             FF
Oh ..
    DmDm
On her ..
FF
Beside ..
  C majorC            FF
And ..
    C majorC    G+G    C majorC
You ...

C majorC
(la la la, la la la)
C majorC
(la la la, la la la)

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When ..
          Bb majorBb
If ..

For a ..
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Or ..

Eb MajorEb
(la la la, la la la)
C majorC
(la la la, la la la)

C majorC
Ah ..
           G+G
Oh ..
FF    C majorC    FF   C majorC
When ..
FF   DmDm     FF   DmDm
Up the ..
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Lydia, ..
              FF
Oh ..
  DmDm
For ..
    FF
With a ..
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And ..
    C majorC    G+G    C majorC
You ..

C majorC
(la la la, la la la)
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(la la la, la la la)

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Come ..
                 Bb majorBb
Just a ..

Here ..
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Here's ..

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(la la la, la la la)

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Over ..

Here's ..
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Here's ..

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(Whistling ..
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(Whistling .....)

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Ah ..
              FF
Oh ..
  DmDm
She ..
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For ..

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I ..
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La-la!