Scarlet Begonias Cifras

[Verse 1]
C                     F         G
As I was walkin' down Grosvenor Square,
      C                         F          G
Not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air,
F                C  G    F                  C
From the other direction she was calling my eye,
F             C  G   F                   C                  G
Could be an illusion but I might as well try, might as well try.
 
[Verse 2]
C                                F            G
She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes,
C                                 F        G
And I knew without askin' she was into the blues.
F                C  G    F                C
She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls,
F             C   G    F                 C            G
I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls.
 
[Verse 3]
C                                   F           G
In the heat of the evening when the dealin' got rough,
C                           F           G
She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff.
F                 C  G    F                   C
As I picked up my matches and was closin' the door,
F                  C   G    F                 C                 G
I had one of those flashes, I'd been there before, been there before.
 
[Bridge]
       D
Well I ain't often right but I've never been wrong,
G                           F           C
Seldom turns out the way it does in the song.
D
Once in a while you get shown the light
       G                          F          C
In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
 
D.     F.     G
 
[Verse 4]
C                                       F       G
Well there ain't nothin' wrong with the way she moves,
C                         F            G
All scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues.
F                   C  G           F                  C
And there's nothing wrong with the look that's in her eyes
F                  C    G      F            C                G
I had to learn the hard way to let her pass by, let her pass by.
 
[Verse 5]
C                                 F       G
The wind in the willow's playing "Tea for Two,"
C                          F       G
The sky was yellow and the sun was blue,
F                  C    G    F                   C
Strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hand,
F           C    G  F                    C                   G
Everybody's playing in the heart of gold band, heart of gold band.
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