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If I Had A Talking Picture Of You

Words and Music by B.G. Sylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson - 1929

Verse:
Bb7	-	Eb	-
Bb7	-	Bbm6	C7
Fm	Abm6	Eb	-
F7	-	Fm7	Bb7
Chorus:
Eb	-                         Bbdim	Bb7	-
-	-	Eb	-
Bbm6	C7	Fm	-
F9	-	Bb7	Bb+7
Eb	-                         Bbdim	Bb7	-
-	-	G7               Fm	G7
Cm	Db7(b5)	Cm	F9
Fm7	Bb7	Eb	-     (Bb7 to chorus)

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

This song is in the key of Eb.

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Verse:

I talk to your photograph each day,

You should hear the lovely things I say.

But I've thought how happy I would be,

If your photograph could talk to me.

 

Chorus:

If I had a talking picture of you,
I would run it every time I felt blue.
I would sit there in the gloom, of my lonely little room,
And applaud each time you whispered, "I love you! Love you!"

On the screen the moment you came in view,
We would talk the whole thing over, we two.
I would give ten shows a day, And a midnight matinee,
If I had a talking picture of you.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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