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JOSEPHINE

Words by Gus Kahn, Music by Wayne King and Burke Bivens - 1936

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
G	D7	G	D7
G           C7	G         D+	G         C7	G          D7
G	D7	G	D7
G           C7	G         D+	G         C7	G          D7
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
G	-	A7	-
D7	-	G         D+	G
E7	-	A7	-
-	-	D7	-          Eb7    D7
G7	-	C	-
A7	-	D7	-
G	-	A7	-                 Cdim
G7         Edim	D7	G	-  (D7 to chorus)

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

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Verse:

Oh the love bug bit and bit me good, I'm do -ing things I nev -er should

Since I met my Jo -seph -ine, Cu -test gal I've ev -er seen.

She can be so bad or be so nice, Can be so warm or cold as ice

But my life won't be se -rene Till I get my Jo -seph -ine.

 

Chorus:

There nev -er was a gal I could love like I love my Jo -seph -ine,

She's a flirt, she's a scamp, she's the vamp -i -est vamp I've ev -er seen;

It seems to me she's al -ways flirt -ing With the fel -lows pass -ing by,

But when I say she winks Then she tells me she thinks There's a cin -der in her eye,

I be -lieve it would be bet -ter if I'd leave her and for -get, Ev -'ry -bo -dy says it would be wise,

But each time that I go out to dance with some -bo -dy else I find my -self danc -ing with tears in my eyes

For there's no -bo -dy quite so nice who can be quite so mean

As my gal, What a gal, Jo -seph -ine.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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