A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody
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A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody Cifra por John Steel/Irving Berlin
This is the original version as featured in the 1919 Follies.
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: GCapotraste: Sem capotraste
[VERSE]
G
I have an ear for music
D7 G
and I have an eye for a maid
G
I link a pretty girlie
Eb7 D7 G
with each pretty tune thats played.
C Cm G Fdim E7
They go together, like sun-ny weather
A7 D7
goes with the month of May.
G
I've studied girls and music
Eb7 D7 G
so I'm qualified to say...
[CHORUS]
D7 Eb7 E7 A9` D7 Am7 D7
A pret-ty girl is like a melody
Gmaj7 G6 Gdim G/D G
that haunts you night and day
Fmaj7 F6 G7 C F7 G
Just like the strain of a haunting refrain
Ab7 A7 Em7
She'll start upon a marathon
A7 D7/A Ddim/A
and run around your brain
D7 Eb7 E7 A9 D7 Am7 D7
You can't es-cape, she's in your memory
Gmaj7 G6 G7 C E7 Am
by morn--ing, night and noon.
F#7 B7
She will leave you and then
E7 Am
come back a-gain
F/A D7/A G Cm G
A pretty girl is just like a pretty tune
D7 Eb7 E7 A9 D7 Am7 D7
A pret-ty girl is like a melody
Gmaj7 G6 Gdim G/D G
that haunts you night and day
Fmaj7 F6 G7 C F7 G
Just like the strain of a haunting refrain
Ab7 A7 Em7
She'll start upon a marathon
A7 D7/A Ddim/A
and run around your brain
D7 Eb7 E7 A9 D7 Am7 D7
You can't es-cape, she's in your memory
Gmaj7 G6 G7 C E7 Am
by morn--ing, night and noon.
F#7 B7
She will leave you and then
E7 Am
come back a-gain
F/A D7/A G Cm G
A pretty girl is just like a pretty tune
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