How Sad Venice Can Be

Verse 1 Bb How sad Venice can be F When you return alone Gm To find a memory F In every paving stone. Cm I walk among the birds F That fill San Marco's Square C With echoes of her words F Around me in the air. [Refrão] Bb How sad Venice can be G When the mandolins play Cm A song she sung for me F One unforgotten day. Bb Like images of sleep Eb The gondoliers go by Cm But when I try to weep F Bb I find my tears are dry. Key Change - B Verse 2 B How sad Venice can be Abm When mist is in your eyes C#m And you can hardly see F# As pigeons fill the skies. C#m I find the little street F# And then the old café C#m Where we would always meet F# To dream away the day. [Refrão] B How sad Venice can be A Ab Be-neath the silent moon C#m That rises from the sea F# And silvers the la-goon. B I hear the vespers chime Abm And cross the Bridge of Sighs C#m I know that it is time F# B To bid my last good-byes. Key Change - C SEGUE C There's nothing more to say F I pass beneath the light Dm And then I turn away G C From Venice in the night. OUTRO C How sad Venice can be F A It's too lonely to bare F When you have lost the love G C That you discovered there.