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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Words by Otto Harbach, Music by Jerome Kern, 1933

                                   
Recorded by The Platters,1958 (#1)
                                                   
From the 1933 musical "Roberta," starring Bob Hope


  C    C+7     C7   Dm7  
They asked me how I knew

G7                C    C+   F 
My true love was true;      

Ebdim    Cdim     C6   
I   of course replied,

C          C+7    Dm7  
"Something here inside

G7          C      Am    F    G7 
Cannot be denied."            


  C   C+7        C7         Dm  
They said, "Someday you'll find

 G7               C     C+   F 
All who love are blind.      

Ebdim      Cdim        C6  
When your heart's on fire,

 C       C+7   Dm7  
You must re-al-ize

G7                   C     Fm7      C      Eb      Eb7 
Smoke gets in your eyes."                          


        
Bridge:

                               
Ab          Ab/G           Fm7
                                      
So I chaffed them and I gaily laughed

    Fm7/Eb            Eb   Ebdim  Eb  Eb7 
To think they could doubt my love     

                             
Ab          Ab/G         Fm7
                                  
Yet today my love has flown away,

 Fm7/Eb    C  C+7 Dm7   G7 
I am without my love.   


  C    C+7     C7       Dm  
Now laughing friends deride

   G7           C    C+   F 
Tears I cannot hide;      

Ebdim   Cdim       C6  
So   I smile and say,

  C     C+7           Dm   
"When a lovely flame dies,

  G7/9     G7        C     Dm    C   Am 
Smoke gets in your eyes."            


      
Coda:

  F   Fmaj7 Fm7 Fm7/Eb  C  
Smoke gets in  your  eyes.