Chords for How Sad Venice Can Be

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[Ab] How saddened it can be when you return alone to find the memory in every [Bbm] paving stone.
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[Bbm] I walk among the birds [Eb] that fill San Marco Square [Bb] with echoes of her words around me
in the air.
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[Ab] How saddened [Abm] it can be [F] when the mandolins play [Bbm] a song she sung for me one
[Db] unforgotten day.
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[Ab] Like images of sleep, [Db] the gondoliers go [Db] by, but when [Bbm] I try to [Eb] weep,
I find [Ab] my tears _ unripe.
[A] How saddened it can be when mist is in your [Dbm] eyes,
and [A] you can hardly see as pigeons [Bm] fill the skies.
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[Bm] I find the little street [E] and then the old cafe
[B] where we would always meet, [D] who dream away the [E] day.
[A] How saddened it can be [G] beneath the silent
[Gb] moon [Bm] that rises from the sea and [Dm] silvers the [E] moon. _ _
[A] I hear the vespers chime [D] and cross the bridge
of sight.
I [Bm] know that it is [E] time to bid my [A] last goodbye. _ _
[Bb] There's nothing more to say.
I pass beneath the light and then I turn away from Venice [Eb] in the night.
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[Bb] How saddened it can be, [Bm] it's too lonely to [G] bear, [Cm] when you have lost the love [F] that you [Cm] discovered.
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