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The Donkey Serenade
From the "Firefly"
Lyrics by Bob Wright and Chet Forrest, Music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stolhart - 1937
Intro:----------- ------------------ C -
- -            G9 G7          C -
- - - G9         G7
C - - -
Verse:---------- ------------------ ------------------ ------------------
G7 Dm7      G7 C -
Dm7      G7 Dm7      G7 C -
Dm7      G7 Dm7      G7 C -
Dm7      G7 Dm7      G7 C -
- - - -
- - - -             E7
Chorus:--------- ------------------ ------------------ ------------------
Am       E7 Abdim  E7 Abdim Am       E7  Am7 E7b9      E7
Am       E7  Am7 D9        Bm  Am6 Dm7     G9 Dm7       G7
C          Dm  Em Dm                Em C  
Dm7     G7 Dm7     G7 C -  (to verse)
8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.
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Verse:
There's a song in the air, But the fair se -no -ri -ta does -n't seem to
Care for the song in the air.
So I'll sing to the mule if you're sure she won't think that I am just a
Fool ser -e -nad -ing a mule.
A -mi -go mi -o, does she not have a daint -y bray? She list -ens care -ful -ly to each lit -tle tune you play.
La bel -la Se -no -ri -ta" Si, Si, mi mu -cha -chi -to, She'd love to sing it too if on -ly she knew the way.
 
Chorus:
But try as she may, in her voice there's a flaw!
And all that the la -dy can say is: "E -E -AW!"
(Instrumental, no lyrics)
(Instrumental, no lyrics)
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Trivia:
The song "Donkey Serenade" was not in the original stage production of "The Firefly".
The tune was written for the movie, but the music was adapted from the song "Chansonette", from the stage version of "The Firefly".
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Arranged by Jim Bottorff
 
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