Chords for Ella Fitzgerald: The Lady Is a Tramp (Rodgers / Hart, 1937) - Lyrics

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_ _ I've wined [Am] and dined [Bm] on mulligan [Am] stew [Em] and never [Bb] wished [B] for [A] turkey
As I hitched [Bm] and hiked and [Dbm]
[D] grifted to [Gbm] from [C] Maine to _ [B] _
[Gb] Albuquerque
_ [Gbm] _ Alas, I [Bm] missed the Beaux [E] Arts ball _ [Em] and what [A] is twice as [C] sad _
[Bm] _ I [G] was [Am] never at [G] a party [Am] where [G] they honored [D] _ [Bm] Noel _ Kedd
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[Em] But _ social [Db] circles spin too [Em] fast for me
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_ [D] My whole _ _ [Bb] bohemia is the place [G] to _ be
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _
I [Gm] get too hungry [Am] for dinner at eight
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[Bm] I like [Gm] the theater _ [C] but never [D] come late
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I never bother [Am] with _ people [A] I _ hate
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[Eb] That's why [C] the lady [Am] [G] is a trash
_ _ [B] I [G] _ _ [Bm] _
don't [Gm] like crap [Am] games with barons and _ _ [G] earls
_ [Bm]
Won't go to [Gm] Harlem [Am] in ermine and pearls
[Eb] _ _ [G] _ Won't dish [F] the dirt with [Em] the rest of [A] the _ girls
[G] _ [Eb] That's why [Em] [Am] the lady [G] is a trash _
_ _ I [Am] like the free, _ _ [D] _ fresh [G] wind in my _ [Gm] hair
[Am] _ Life [D] without _ care, [G] _ [Bm] I'm [Am] broke
[D] It's [G] old Kate, _ [Eb] California
[Dm] _ [C] It's cold and it's [Eb] damp
_ [G] _ [Eb] That's why [Em] the _ [D] lady [G] is a trash _
_ [Bb] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bm] I go [Gm] to Coney, _ [Am] the _ beach is divine
[Cm] _ _ [G] _ [Bm] I go [Bb] to ball games, [Am] the bleachers are fine
[D] _ _ [G] _ I follow [B] winter _ [Am] and read it
[A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [Eb] That's why [C] the lady [Bm] [G] is a trash
_ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] I like [Bb] rice pies, [Am] that isn't a pain
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ [D] I love [Gm] the _ rowing [Am] on Central Park Lane
_ _ [G] I go [Dm] to opera _ [Am] and stay wide [Eb] _ [Cm] awake
_ [G] _ That's why [Am] the lady [Bm] is [G] a trash
I _ _ _ like [Am] the _ green [D] _ _ grass _ _ [G]
under my _ [Bb] shoes
[Am] _ What can [D] I _ _ [Em] lose?
I'm flat, [Bbm] _ _ that's [Ab] bad
[Cm] _
_ [B] _ That's _ [Bbm] _ _ _
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[E] why [Bbm] the lady _ [G] is a trash
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