Chords for Egyptian Ella - Ted Weems & his Orchestra - 1931 Victor Orthophonic

All right, I'm going to take you back into the jazz age for this one and also the early
depression era of 1931.
_ Ted Weems and his orchestra with vocal refrain by Country Washburn _ singing all about the
exploits of Egyptian Ella here on a Victor orthophonic _ record played of course on the Victor credenza. _ _
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[Cm] _ _ _ Ella was a dancing gal [Dm] who started getting fat.
Well every day brought two more [A] pounds to [G] Ella.
_ [Cm] Until one day she found she [Dm] lost her job because of that.
[G] And to make it worse she [F] lost her [Bb] fella.
So [F] she took a trip to Egypt to forget.
[Cm] _ [D] But she made such a hit that she's there yet.
[Bb] But [Eb] if you hear of a gal who can shake and quake [Ab] till it makes you think of a [Dm] nervous
snake, they're speaking of [A] Egyptian Ella.
_ Why she weighs 220 but they don't care.
[Ab] They like them plenty that way [Dm] out there _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ [D] _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] by the river Nile.
[F] And make all the boys take their own [D] sweethearts.
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_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ Egyptian [D] Ella.
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_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ Well the boys hang [Cm] around but she plainly states that she doesn't care a thing about
[Gm] dates so they can't make Egyptian Ella.
Well she tried [Cm] to kidnap her once I'm told but she shook so much that he lost his [Gm] foal
so he couldn't take Egyptian Ella.
[Fm] So the pastor wrote her a royal [Cm] note with his royal fist.
[Fm]
And said because of the dance she does [Dm] she's on his royal [G] waiting list.
And that's how fame of [Ab] a different sort has come at last [Dm] from an indoor sport to our own Egyptian [Eb] Ella.
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_ That's Egyptian Ella from 1931 done by Ted Williams in an orchestra with vocal refrain
by Country Washburn. _ _