Show Boat - Life Upon The Wicked Stage Ukulele chords by Soundtracks

ELLIE:
   C                     G
Why do stage struck maidens clamor

  Am              F
To be actin' in the drammer?



GIRLS:
  C             G
We've heard say

 Am          F
You are gay

   C         F
Night and day



ELLIE:

Oh, go away


GIRLS:
 C                 G
We drink water from a dipper

 Am                      F
You drink champagne from a slipper



ELLIE:
  C           G
Though it seems

  F         G
Crool to bust

 C           G
All your dreams

 Am          G
Still, I must

  C                    C      F
Here's the truth I tell you:



Refrain:
 C                       G                         Am        F
Life upon the wicked stage ain't ever what a girl supposes

 C                            G                      Am          F    G
Stage-door Johnnies aren't raging over you with gems and roses

 G                       Am           F
When you let a feller hold your hand (which

 G                G         Am
Means an extra beer or sandwich)

 C                     G            Am        G
Everybody whispers, "Ain't her life a whirl?"


 C                                G                   Am       F
Though you're warned against a roue ruining your reputation

 C                          G                          Am           F   G
I have played around the one night trade around a great big nation

 G                           Am            F
Wild old men who give you jewels and sables

 C      G         Am         F   G
Only live in Aesop's fables

 C                      G                           C
Life upon the wicked stage ain't nothin' for a girl



GIRLS:
                              G          F
Though we've listened to you moan and grieve, you

 Am                         G        F
Must pardon us if we do not believe you

 C             G
There is no doubt you're

 Am         F          C       C
Crazy about your awful stage



ELLIE:
 G                     F
I admit it's fun to smear my face with paint

 C                     G
Causing everyone to think I'm what I ain't

 G                                 C       Am      C
And I like to play a demi-mondy role- with soul!

 G                      F
Ask the hero does he like the way I lure

 C                     G
When I play a hussy or a paramour;

 G                                             G
Yet when once the curtain's down my life is pure-

     F             G
And how I dread it!



GIRLS:

Refrain:
 C                      G                         Am          F
Life upon the wicked stage ain't ever what a girl supposes

 C                            G                      Am          F   G
Stage-door Johnnies aren't raging over you with gems and roses



ELLIE:
 G                         Am           F
If some gentleman would talk with reason

 C         G        Am          F
I would cancel all next season-

 C                      G                           C
Life upon the wicked stage ain't nothin' for a girl



GIRLS:

You'll be back the season after!

ELLIE:
 G                     Am            F         G               Am     F
I got virtue but it ain't been tested. No one's even interested.

 C                      G            C
Life upon the wicked stage...