"AT THE BALLET" performance Barbra Streisand with Anne Hathaway and Daisy Ridley Chords

[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Daddy always thought that he married beneath him, that's [E] what he said, that's what he said.
[Am] When he proposed he [Em] informed my mother he was probably [Am] our very [D] [A] last chance.
_ _ And though she was [Am] twenty-two, [Gm] though she was [Am] twenty [Gm]-two, oh she was [A] twenty-two, _ _ she [D] married _ him.
_ _ _ [Am] Life with my dad was never a picnic, [G] more like a come as you are.
[Am]
When I was five I remember my mother [G] dug earrings out of the car.
[Ab] I knew that they weren't hers but it [Gm] wasn't something you'd want to discuss.
[Am] He wasn't warm, _ well not to [Dm] her, _ [Am] _
well not to us, _ come to think of it.
_ [B] But everything was beautiful at the _ [Dbm] ballet.
_ _ _ [B] _ Graceful men lift lovely _ girls in _ _ _ [E] _
[B] white.
Yes, [Bm] _ everything [E] was beautiful [G] at the ballet. _
I _ _ [Gb] was happy _ [B] at the _ [Em] ballet.
[Bm]
And that's when I started class.
Up a steep and very narrow [Gbm] _ _ stairway, [G] to the voice like a [Bm] _ _ [Gb] metronome.
[Bm] Up a steep and very narrow [Gbm] _ _ stairway, [G] it wasn't paradise, [Gbm] it wasn't paradise, [Em] it wasn't paradise,
[Gb] but it [Bm] was home.
Okay, number eighteen.
I'm Beebe, sir.
And what's your story?
I don't know what you mean.
_ _ Okay, on the subject of [B] mothers, what about yours?
_ [Bm] My mother?
[Am] Yes, yours.
_ _ She lied to me.
She lied to you?
_ Mother always said I'd be [Em] very attractive [Am] when I [Em] grew up, when I grew up.
[Am] Different, she said, with a special something and a very, very personal _ [A] flat.
_ _ [Dm] Though I was [Am] eight or nine, [Gm] though I was [Am] eight or [Gm] nine, though I was eight [A] or nine.
_ _ [D] _ I hated her. _
_ _ [Am] Now, different is nice, but it sure isn't pretty.
[G] Twenty is what it's about.
_ [Am] I never met anyone who was different, [G] who couldn't figure that out.
[F] So beautiful, I'd never [Am] live to see.
_ _ _ But it was clear, _ [C] if not to her, well [A] then to me. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ Everyone is beautiful at the ballet. _ _
[G] _ _ _ [D] Every prince has got to have his _ swan. _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] Everyone [G] is _ beautiful [Bb] at the ballet.
_ [E] _ _ _ [D] I was pretty [A] at the [Gm] ballet. _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ Up a steep and very narrow [Am] _ stairway, _ [Bb] to the voice like a _ _ [A] metronome.
[Dm] Up a steep and very narrow [Am] _ _ stairway, [Bb]
was [C] paradise.
It wasn't [F] paradise.
[Gm] It wasn't paradise.
[A] But it was [Dm] home.
All right, number [Bb] six.
Number six, that's me, Maggie.
_ _ Can I tell you about my [D] parents?
Go ahead.
_ [G] I don't know what they were for or [C] against, really, except each other.
[G] I mean, I was born to save [C] their marriage, but when my father [G] came to pick up my mother from the hospital,
[Am] he said, I [G] thought this was going to help, but _ I guess not.
_ [Gm] Anyway, I did [C] have a fantastic fantasy life.
[Eb] I used to dance around the living room with my arms up like this.
My fantasy was, [Db] it was an Indian chief, and he'd say to [Ab] me,
Hey, Maggie, do you want to dance?
[Db] And I'd say, Daddy, I would [Ab] love to dance.
[Dbm] _
But it was [Gb] clear when he [Dbm] proposed [Abm] that I was [Eb] born to help [Ab] their [Dbm] marriage and when.
[Abm] [Gb] That's what he said.
That's [Bb] what she said.
[Eb] I used to [Ab] dance around the living [Dbm] room.
_ It [Gb] wasn't warm.
Not to [E] her.
_ It [Eb] was an Indian chief, and he [Db] said, Maggie, do you want to [Ab] dance?
And I said, Daddy, [Db]
I would love [Ab] to.
[D] _ Everything _ [G] was beautiful [D] at the ballet.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D]
Raise your arms and [G] someone's [D] always _ _ _ _ there. _
[Dm] It _ _ [G] was _ beautiful [Bb] at the ballet.
_ _ _ [E] _ [Dm] _
_ [Bb] _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[G] At the ballet. _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
No, no, no, [A] no, no.
[D] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ Everything [G] was beautiful.
I [Bb] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [Bb] was happy _ at [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [A] the _ [Dm] ballet.
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] God, I hope I get this job.
_ Yeah, me too.
What about me?
Okay, ladies, we'll let you know. _
Next.
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