Lush Life Harmonica Tabs

By: Billy Strayhorn
Duke Ellington, Queen Latifah, Natalie Cole
Key: Db

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I used to vis-it all the ver-y gay pla-ces
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Those come what may pla-ces
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Where one re-lax-es on the ax-is
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of the wheel of life
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To get the feel of life…
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From jazz and cock-tails.

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The girls I knew had sad
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and sul-len gray fac-es
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With dis-tin-que trac-es
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That used to be there you could see where
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they’d been washed a-way
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By too man-y thru the day…
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Twelve o’-clock tales.
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Then you came a-long with your si-ren song
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To tempt me to mad-ness!

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I thought for a while that your poig-nant smile
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was tinged with the sad-ness
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Of a great love for me.
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Ah! yes I was wrong…
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A-gain, I was wrong.

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Life is lone-ly a-gain,
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And on-ly last year ev-�ry-thing seemed so sure.
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Now life is aw-ful a-gain,
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A trough-ful of hearts could on-ly be a bore.
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A week in Par-is will ease the bite of it,
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All I care is to smile in spite of it.
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I’ll for-get you, I will
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While yet you are still burn-ing
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in-side my brain.
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Ro-mance is mush,
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Sti-fling those who strive.
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I’ll live a lush life in some small dive…
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And there I’ll be, while I rot
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With the rest of those whose lives
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are lone-ly, too..

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