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These Foolish Things
Words & Music by Holt Marvell, Jack Stachey & Harry Link
Recorded by Benny Goodman, 1936 (#1)
D6 Bm7 Em9 A7
A cigarette that bears a lipstick´s traces,
D6 Bm7 E9 A7
An airline ticket to romantic places,
D9 D7+5 G6
And still my heart has wings --
B7 E7 A7 Em7 A7
These foolish things remind me of you.
D6 Bm7 Em9 A7
A tinkling piano in the next apartment,
D6 Bm7 E9 A7
Those stumblin´ words that told you what my heart meant,
D9 D7+5 G6
A fairground´s faded swings --
B7 E7 A7 D C#7
These foolish things remind me of you.
Bridge:
F#m7 Bm6 C#9 F#m F#m7
You came, you saw, you conquered me;
A F#m7 Bm7 E9
When you did that to me,
A7 Cdim Em7 A7
I knew somehow this had to be.
D6 Bm7 Em9 A7
The winds of March that make my heart a dancer,
D6 Bm7 E9 A7
A telephone that rings but who´s to answer?
D9 D7+5 GM7
Oh, how the ghost of you clings --
B7 E7 A7 D Cdim Em7 A7
These foolish things remind me of you.
(Instrumental Break - 1 Verse)
Bridge 2:
F#m7 Bm6 C#9 F#m F#m7
How strange, how sweet, to find you still!
A F#m7 Bm7 E9
These things are dear to me;
A7 Cdim Em7 A7
They seem to bring you near to me.
D6 Bm7 Em9 A7
The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations
D6 Bm7 E9 A7
Silk stockings thrown aside, dance in-vi-ta-tions
D9 D7+5 GM7
Oh, how the ghost of you clings --
B7 E7 A7 D G D
These foolish things remind me of you.
The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.
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