Alma

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[Verse]
    E                A
The loveliest girl Vienna
    B                     E
Was Alma, the smartest as well
Once you picked her up on your 
  A
antenna,
      B                    E
You'd never be free of her spell.
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Her lovers were many and varied,
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From the day she began her -- 
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beguine.
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There were three famous ones whom 
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she married,
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And who knows how many between.

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

[Verse]
    E                        
The first one she married was 
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Mahler,
      B                      
Whose buddies all knew him as 
 E
Gustav.
And each time he saw her he'd 
A
holler:
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"Ach, that is the fraulein I moost 
have!"
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      C                      G
Their marriage, however, was murduh
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He'd scream to the heavens above,
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"I'm writing Das Lied von der Erde,
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And she only wants to make love!"

[Chorus 2]
A     E         B               
Alma, tell us!  All modern women
     E
 are jealous
    A                       E     
You should have a statue in bronze
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 for bagging Gustav & Walter & Franz

[Verse]
      E                      
While married to Gus, she met 
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Gropius,
    B                         
And soon she was swinging with 
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Walter.
Gus died, and her tear drops were 
A
copious.
    B                        E
She cried all the way to the altar.
    C                        
But he would work late at the 
 G
Bauhaus,
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And only came home now and then
          Em7                   A7
She said, "What am I running, a chow
 house?
     F#                      B
It's time to change parters again."

[Chorus 3]
A     E         B               
Alma, tell us!  All modern women
     E
 are jealous
       A                   E
Though you didn't even use Ponds,
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You got Gustav and Walter and Franz

[Verse]
      E                        
While married to Walt she'd met 
 A
Werfel,
    B                        E
And he too was caught in her net.
                           A
He married her, but he was careful,
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'cause Alma was no Bernadette.
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And that is the story of Alma,
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Who knew how to receive and to give
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The body that reached her embalma'
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Was one that had known how to live!

[Chorus 4]
A     E         B               
Alma, tell us!  How can they 
        E
help being jealous?
A                     E     C#  
Ducks always envy the swans who 
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get Gustav and Walter,
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You never did falter, with Gustav
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 and Walter and Franz