Chords for At The Ballet

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Everything [D] was beautiful [A] at the ballet.
[Bm] _ _ _ [A] _ Graceful men lift [D] lovely [A] girls in wa- _ _ _
Yes, [Am] everything [D] was beautiful [F] at the ballet.
[B] Hey! _ _
I [E] was happy _ at the ba [Am] _
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[A] _ _ That's when I started ballet class.
Up a steep and very [Em] narrow _ [F] stairway
To the voice like a [E] _ metronome
[Am] Up a steep and very [Em] narrow _ stairway
[F] It wasn't paradise
_ [Em] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
[A] But it was _ home.
_ [Am] Mother always said I'd be very attractive
[E] When I grew _ up
[Am] Different, she said, with a special something
And a very, very [D] personal flair.
[A] And [Dm] though I was eight [Am] or [Gm] nine
Though I was [Am] eight or nine
[Gm]
I _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[D] hated her.
_ _ _ Now, [F] different is nice, but it sure isn't pretty
[Bm] Pretty is what it's about.
_ [F] I never met anyone who was different
[Bm] Who couldn't figure that out.
[F] So beautiful, _ I'd never [Am] live to see
_ _ But it was [F] clear, _ _ if not to her, _ _ [Am] well, then to me
_ [D] That everyone [G] is beautiful [D] at the ballet
_ [G] _ _ [D] Every prince [G] has got to [D] have his one _ _ _
[Dm] Yes, everyone [G] is beautiful [Bb] at the ballet
_ [E] I was pretty _ _ at the [Dm] ballet
I _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] was born to save their [G] marriage.
_ _ _ But when my father came to pick [C] me and my mother up from the hospital
_ He said, [Bb] well, I thought this was going to help, but I guess not.
[Gm] _
_ _ [Bb] A few months later he left.
[Gm] _ _
_ _ [G] _ Anyway, I had this [D] incredible fantasy life.
[G] _ _ I used to dance around the living room with my arms up, like this.
_ _ _ And in my fantasy [E] there was this Indian chief.
_ And he'd say to me, [Dbm] _ _
Maggie, _ [E] do you want to dance? _ _
[A] And I'd say, _ [Ab] Daddy, I would love to dance.
_ [D] Yes, everything is [G] beautiful [D] at the _ [G] _ _
_ [D] ballet
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_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] Yes, everything [G] was beautiful _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ at the ballet
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_ [A] _ _ _ Yes, _ _
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_ [Dm] everything [G] was beautiful [Bb] at the ballet
[Gm] I _ was [A] pretty
_ I was happy
_ [E]
I would love to
at _ the [Bb] ballet _ _ _ _ _ _
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