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Blue Moon

Words by Lorenz Hart, Music by Richard Rogers - 1934

Verse:
Dm        Dm7	G7       Gm6	Dm        A7	Gm6       A7
Dm        Dm7	G7       Gm6	Dm        A7	Gm6       Dm
Gm        A7	D          Bm7	G           A7	D
Gm7      C7	F	Dm7      G7	G7          C7
Chorus:
F           Dm	Gm       C7	F           Dm	Gm       C7
F           Dm	Gm       C7	F	-           C7
F           Dm	Gm       C7	F           Dm	Gm       C7
F           Dm	Gm       C7	F	-           C7
Gm7      C7	F	Gm7      C7	F
Bbm      Eb7	Ab	C           G7	Gm       C7
F           Dm	Gm       C7	F           Dm	Gm       C7
F           Dm	Gm       C7	F	-  (C7 to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verse:

Once upon a time, before I took up smiling,  I hated the moonlite.

Shadows of the night, that poets find beguiling,  Were flat as the noonlite.

With no one to stay up for,  I went to sleep at ten.

Life was a bitter cup for the saddest of all men.

 

Chorus:

Blue Moon you saw me standing alone,  Without a dream in my heart,

Without a love of my own.

Blue Moon you knew just what I was there for,  You heard me saying a pray'r for,
Someone I really could care for.
And then there suddenly appeared before me,  The only one my arms will ever hold,
I heard somebody whisper "Please adore me,"  And when I looked, the moon had turned to gold!

Blue Moon! Now I'm no longer alone,  Without a dream in my heart,

Without a love of my own.

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Watch the WineLand Banjo Band play "Blue Moon" (youtube)

 

Watch John Green sing "Blue Moon" at Milano's Restaurant (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com