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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Music by Jerome Kern, Words by Otto Harbach - 1933

F	C7	F          F+	Bb         Fdim
F	Gm7      C7	F	C7
F	C7	F7        F+	Bb         Fdim
F	Gm7      C7	F	-
Db	-	Ab7      Abdim	Ab7
Db	Bbm7     C7	F	C7
F	C7	F          F+	Bb         Fdim
F	Gm7      C7	F	(C7 repeat)

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

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They asked me how I knew My true love was true?

I of course re -plied, "Some -thing here in -side, Can -not be de -nied."

They said some -day you'll find, All who love are blind.

When your heart's on fire, You must re -al -ize Smoke gets in your eyes.

So I chaffed them and I gay -ly laughed, to think they could doubt my love.

Yet to -day My love has flown a -way, I am with -out my love.

Now laugh -ing friends de -ride, Tears I can -not hide,

So I smile and say, "When a love -ly flame dies. Smoke gets in your eyes."

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Sound Clip:

Listen to Jim play "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" on the plectrum banjo (602k mp3 file)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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