Tom Lehrer – Alma chords

[Intro]
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[Verse]
    E                AThe loveliest girl Vienna
    B                     EWas Alma, the smartest as well
                                 AOnce you picked her up on your antenna,
      B                    EYou'd never be free of her spell.
    C                    GHer lovers were many and varied,
         D7                   GFrom the day she began her -- beguine.
           Em7                        A7There were three famous ones whom she married,
    F#                 BAnd who knows how many between.

[Chorus 1]
A     E         B                    EAlma, tell us!  All modern women are jealous.
A                     E     C#      F#m        B7         EWhich of your magical wands got you Gustav and Walter and Franz?

[Verse]
    E                         AThe first one she married was Mahler,
      B                       EWhose buddies all knew him as Gustav.
                              AAnd each time he saw her he'd holler:
      B                      E"Ach, that is the fraulein I moost have!"
      C                      GTheir marriage, however, was murduh
     D7                     GHe'd scream to the heavens above,
     Em7                      A7"I'm writing Das Lied von der Erde,
    F#                     BAnd she only wants to make love!"

[Chorus 2]
A     E         B                    EAlma, tell us!  All modern women are jealous
    A                       E          C#      F#m      B7       EYou should have a statue in bronze for bagging Gustav & Walter & Franz

[Verse]
      E                       AWhile married to Gus, she met Gropius,
    B                          EAnd soon she was swinging with Walter.
                                  AGus died, and her tear drops were copious.
    B                        EShe cried all the way to the altar.
    C                         GBut he would work late at the Bauhaus,
    D7                     GAnd only came home now and then
          Em7                   A7She said, "What am I running, a chow house?
     F#                      BIt's time to change parters again."

[Chorus 3]
A     E         B                    EAlma, tell us!  All modern women are jealous
       A                   EThough you didn't even use Ponds,
C#      F#m        B7         EYou got Gustav and Walter and Franz

[Verse]
      E                         AWhile married to Walt she'd met Werfel,
    B                        EAnd he too was caught in her net.
                           AHe married her, but he was careful,
       B                E'cause Alma was no Bernadette.
    C                    GAnd that is the story of Alma,
         D7                    GWho knew how to receive and to give
    Em7                   A7The body that reached her embalma'
    F#                        BWas one that had known how to live!

[Chorus 4]
A     E         B                       EAlma, tell us!  How can they help being jealous?
A                     E     C#      F#m        B7Ducks always envy the swans who get Gustav and Walter,
    F#m       B7           F#m        B7         EYou never did falter, with Gustav and Walter and Franz

[Outro]
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