The Girl That I Marry

Words & Music by Irving Berlin
Recorded by Robert Goulet, 1963
From the 1946 Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun"


D7/9 G          Em7   Edim Am7     D7
The girl that I marry will have to be

     D9  Am7     D7 D7/9 D7  G
 As soft and as pink as  a  nursery

     D9 Am7 D7 D7/9  G  Am7   D7
The girl I call my  own will wear 

 G     Em7  C    Am7   G  G/F# Em7   D7      
Satins and laces and smell of col - ogne


D7/9 G            Em7     Edim Am7     D7
Her nails will be polished and, in her hair,

        D9    Am7   D7   D7/9 D7  G  Am7  G
She'll wear a gar - den - ia and I'll be there

 G+7       G7                C
'Stead of flittin', I'll be sittin'

C/B     Am7            Cdim         G
Next to her and she'll purr like a kitten;

D7 G          Em7  Edim  C    C/B Am7  D9  Am7  D7  G
A doll I can carry, the girl that  I  mar - ry must be.


(Instrumental)


D7/9 G            Em7     Edim Am7     D7
Her nails will be polished and, in her hair,

        D9    Am7   D7   D7/9 D7  G  Am7  G
She'll wear a gar - den - ia and I'll be there

 G+7       G7                C
'Stead of flittin', I'll be sittin'

C/B     Am7            Cdim         G
Next to her and she'll purr like a kitten;

D7 G          Em7  Edim  C    C/B Am7  D9  Am7  D7  G
A doll I can carry, the girl that  I  mar - ry must be.

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