Chords for Harry McClintock - The Man On The Flying Trapeze (1928).
Tempo:
123.1 bpm
Chords used:
Ab
Bb
C
Fm
Eb
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Ab]
[Bb] Once I was happy but now I'm forlorn, like an old coat that is tattered and torn,
left in this wide world to weep and to mourn, betrayed by a [Ab] maid in her teens.
Now this [C] girl that I loved, she was handsome, and I tried all I knew her to please,
[Fm] but I never could please her one [Cm] quarter so well as [C] the man on the flying trapeze.
[Ab] He'd float through the air [Bb] with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on [Ab] the flying trapeze.
His movements are graceful, all girls he [Bb] does please, and the love he [Bb] has [Ab] purloined away.
Her father and mother [Db] were both on my side, very hard tried to make her my own [Ab] bride.
Her father he sighed and her mother [Bb] she cried, to see her throw [Ab] herself away.
[Fm] With all no avail she went there every night to see him perform on the stage,
which caused him to meet her, how he ran me down to [C] tell it would take a whole page.
[Ab] He'd float through the air [Bb] with the greatest of ease, the daring young man [Ab] on the flying trapeze.
His movements are graceful, all girls he [Bb] does please, and the love he [Eb] has [Ab] purloined away.
One night I as usual [Db] went to [Bb] her dear home, found [Eb] there her father [Ab] and mother alone.
I asked for my love and soon [Bb] was made known to my horror that she'd [Ab] run away.
[Fm] She'd packed up her boxes, eloped in the night with him with the greatest of ease.
From two stories high he had lowered her down to [C] the ground on his flying trapeze.
[Ab] He'd float through the air [Bbm] with the greatest of ease, the daring [Eb] young man [Ab] on the flying trapeze.
His movements are graceful, all girls he [Bb] does please, and the love he has [Ab] purloined away.
Some months after that I went into [Bb] a hall.
To my surprise I [Ab] found there on a wall
a bill in red letters which did my [Bb] heart gall that she [Bb] was appearing [Ab] with him.
[Fm] He'd taught her gymnastics and dressed her in tights to help him to live at his ease.
He'd made her assume a masculine name [C] and now she goes on the trapeze.
She [Ab] floats through the air with the greatest of ease, you'd think her a man on the flying trapeze.
She does all the work while he [Bb] takes his ease, and that's what's become [Ab] of
[Bb] Once I was happy but now I'm forlorn, like an old coat that is tattered and torn,
left in this wide world to weep and to mourn, betrayed by a [Ab] maid in her teens.
Now this [C] girl that I loved, she was handsome, and I tried all I knew her to please,
[Fm] but I never could please her one [Cm] quarter so well as [C] the man on the flying trapeze.
[Ab] He'd float through the air [Bb] with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on [Ab] the flying trapeze.
His movements are graceful, all girls he [Bb] does please, and the love he [Bb] has [Ab] purloined away.
Her father and mother [Db] were both on my side, very hard tried to make her my own [Ab] bride.
Her father he sighed and her mother [Bb] she cried, to see her throw [Ab] herself away.
[Fm] With all no avail she went there every night to see him perform on the stage,
which caused him to meet her, how he ran me down to [C] tell it would take a whole page.
[Ab] He'd float through the air [Bb] with the greatest of ease, the daring young man [Ab] on the flying trapeze.
His movements are graceful, all girls he [Bb] does please, and the love he [Eb] has [Ab] purloined away.
One night I as usual [Db] went to [Bb] her dear home, found [Eb] there her father [Ab] and mother alone.
I asked for my love and soon [Bb] was made known to my horror that she'd [Ab] run away.
[Fm] She'd packed up her boxes, eloped in the night with him with the greatest of ease.
From two stories high he had lowered her down to [C] the ground on his flying trapeze.
[Ab] He'd float through the air [Bbm] with the greatest of ease, the daring [Eb] young man [Ab] on the flying trapeze.
His movements are graceful, all girls he [Bb] does please, and the love he has [Ab] purloined away.
Some months after that I went into [Bb] a hall.
To my surprise I [Ab] found there on a wall
a bill in red letters which did my [Bb] heart gall that she [Bb] was appearing [Ab] with him.
[Fm] He'd taught her gymnastics and dressed her in tights to help him to live at his ease.
He'd made her assume a masculine name [C] and now she goes on the trapeze.
She [Ab] floats through the air with the greatest of ease, you'd think her a man on the flying trapeze.
She does all the work while he [Bb] takes his ease, and that's what's become [Ab] of
Key:
Ab
Bb
C
Fm
Eb
Ab
Bb
C
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ [Bb] _ _ Once I was happy but now I'm forlorn, like an old coat that is tattered and torn,
left in this wide world to weep and to mourn, betrayed by a [Ab] maid in her teens.
_ Now this [C] girl that I loved, she was handsome, _ and I tried all I knew her to please,
_ [Fm] but I never could please her one [Cm] quarter so well as [C] the man on the flying _ trapeze.
[Ab] He'd float through the air [Bb] with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on [Ab] the flying trapeze.
His movements are graceful, all girls he [Bb] does please, and the love he [Bb] has [Ab] purloined away.
_ Her father and mother [Db] were both on my side, very hard tried to make her my own [Ab] bride.
Her father he sighed and her mother [Bb] she cried, to see her throw [Ab] herself away.
_ [Fm] With all no avail she went there every night to see him perform on the stage,
which caused him to meet her, how he ran me down to [C] tell it would take a whole page.
_ [Ab] He'd float through the air [Bb] with the greatest of ease, the daring young man [Ab] on the flying trapeze.
His movements are graceful, all girls he [Bb] does please, and the love he [Eb] has [Ab] purloined away.
_ One night I as usual [Db] went to [Bb] her dear home, found [Eb] there her father [Ab] and mother alone.
I asked for my love and soon [Bb] was made known to my horror that she'd [Ab] run away.
[Fm] She'd packed up her boxes, eloped in the night with him with the greatest of ease.
From two stories high he had lowered her down to [C] the ground on his flying _ trapeze.
[Ab] He'd float through the air [Bbm] with the greatest of ease, the daring [Eb] young man [Ab] on the flying trapeze.
His movements are graceful, all girls he [Bb] does please, and the love he has [Ab] purloined away.
_ _ Some months after that I went into [Bb] a hall.
To my surprise I [Ab] found there on a wall
a bill in red letters which did my [Bb] heart gall that she [Bb] was appearing [Ab] with him.
_ [Fm] He'd taught her gymnastics and dressed her in tights to help him to live at his ease.
He'd made her assume a masculine name [C] and now she goes on the trapeze.
_ She [Ab] floats through the air with the greatest of ease, you'd think her a man on the flying trapeze.
She does all the work while he [Bb] takes his ease, and that's what's become [Ab] of
_ [Bb] _ _ Once I was happy but now I'm forlorn, like an old coat that is tattered and torn,
left in this wide world to weep and to mourn, betrayed by a [Ab] maid in her teens.
_ Now this [C] girl that I loved, she was handsome, _ and I tried all I knew her to please,
_ [Fm] but I never could please her one [Cm] quarter so well as [C] the man on the flying _ trapeze.
[Ab] He'd float through the air [Bb] with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on [Ab] the flying trapeze.
His movements are graceful, all girls he [Bb] does please, and the love he [Bb] has [Ab] purloined away.
_ Her father and mother [Db] were both on my side, very hard tried to make her my own [Ab] bride.
Her father he sighed and her mother [Bb] she cried, to see her throw [Ab] herself away.
_ [Fm] With all no avail she went there every night to see him perform on the stage,
which caused him to meet her, how he ran me down to [C] tell it would take a whole page.
_ [Ab] He'd float through the air [Bb] with the greatest of ease, the daring young man [Ab] on the flying trapeze.
His movements are graceful, all girls he [Bb] does please, and the love he [Eb] has [Ab] purloined away.
_ One night I as usual [Db] went to [Bb] her dear home, found [Eb] there her father [Ab] and mother alone.
I asked for my love and soon [Bb] was made known to my horror that she'd [Ab] run away.
[Fm] She'd packed up her boxes, eloped in the night with him with the greatest of ease.
From two stories high he had lowered her down to [C] the ground on his flying _ trapeze.
[Ab] He'd float through the air [Bbm] with the greatest of ease, the daring [Eb] young man [Ab] on the flying trapeze.
His movements are graceful, all girls he [Bb] does please, and the love he has [Ab] purloined away.
_ _ Some months after that I went into [Bb] a hall.
To my surprise I [Ab] found there on a wall
a bill in red letters which did my [Bb] heart gall that she [Bb] was appearing [Ab] with him.
_ [Fm] He'd taught her gymnastics and dressed her in tights to help him to live at his ease.
He'd made her assume a masculine name [C] and now she goes on the trapeze.
_ She [Ab] floats through the air with the greatest of ease, you'd think her a man on the flying trapeze.
She does all the work while he [Bb] takes his ease, and that's what's become [Ab] of