Lush LifeCifra de Viola

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I used to visit all the very gay places, 

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Those come what may places, 

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Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life, 

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To   get   the feel of life from jazz and cocktails. 

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The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces 

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With distant gay traces  

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That used to be there -- you could see where they'd been washed away 

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By   too   many through the day...twelve o'clock tales. 

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Then you came along with your siren of song to tempt me to madness! 

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I thought for a while that your poignant smile was tinged with the sadness 

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Of a great love for   me. 

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Ah yes!   I   was wrong again, I was wrong. 


Melody: 

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Life is lonely again, 

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And only last year everything seemed so sure. 

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Now life is awful again, 

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A trough full of hearts could only be a bore. 

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A week in Paris could ease the bite of it, 

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All I care is to smile in spite of it. 

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I'll forget you, I will, while yet you are still  

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Burning inside my brain. 

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Romance is mush, 

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  Stifling those who strive. 

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So I'll live a lush life in some small dive... 

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And there I'll be, while I rot with the rest  

F7  Eb     E7   F7   F#7  F7   Gdim Bb 
Of those whose lives are lon