Chords for Jan Savitt and His Band (1945)

Not many years [D] ago, the [Bb] world-renowned Symphony Orchestra of one of our [G] great eastern cities
was to become the [D] starting point of a young man's musical career.
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As the vast philharmonic audience listened [Bb] with rapt enjoyment to the enchanting [Gm] melodic strains,
there were probably none [D] who were aware that the future would bring particular [G] recognition
to [D] one of the string [Bb] section's most [A] promising members, [D] our first violinist, Jan Savitt.
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_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ Jan's [Gm] love of music inspired a [D] novel experiment.
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