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The Man On The Flying Trapeze

Words and Music by Walter Okeefe - Copyright 1933

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
C	-	-	G7
-	-	C         Cdim	C          G7
C	-           G7     C	Dm	Fm
C	G7	C	-
Am	-	E7	-
Am	Dm	E7	-
Am	F7	E7	Dm
Am	E7	Am	G7
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
C	-	-	G7
-	-	C         Cdim	C          G7
C	-           G7     C	Dm	Fm
C	G7	C	- (to chorus)

6-beat intro.  Play 3-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

Note:  This song is in 3/4 waltz time.

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Verse:

Once I was hap -py, but now I'm for -lorn,

Like an old coat that is tat -tered and torn,

Left in this wide world to weep and to mourn;

Be -trayed by a maid in her teens

Now this girl that I loved, she was hand -some

And I tried all I knew, her to please

But I nev -er could please her no quar -ter so well,

As the man on the fly -ing tra -peze.

 

First Chorus:

He'd float through the air with the great -est of ease,

The dar -ing young man on the fly -ing tra -peze,

His move -ments are grace -ful, all girls he does please,

And my love he has pur -loined a way.

 

Second Chorus:

She'd float through the air with the great -est of ease,

You'd think her a man on the fly -ing tra -peze,

She does all the work while he takes his ease,

And thats what's be -come of my love.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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