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Green Eyes

Music by Nilo Menendez, English Words by E. Rivera and E. Woods - 1929

Number 3 on the Hit Parade in 1941, played for 13 weeks.

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Am             F	-	Dm             Am	-
F	F#dim	C7	-
-                Bb	-	C7	-
D+             D7	G7	C7	-
Am             F	-	Dm              Am	-
Adim          D7	-	Gm              D7	Gm
-	-               Bdim	F                 Cm	D7
G7	C7	F	-          (C7 repeat)

8-beat intro. Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

This song is in the key of F.

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Your green eyes with their soft lights.  Your eyes that promise sweet nights.
Bring to my soul a longing, A thirst for love divine.

In dreams I seem to hold you.  To find you and enfold you.
Our lips meet and our hearts too.  With a thrill so sublime.

Those cool and limpid green eyes.  A pool where in my love lies,

So deep that in my searching, For happiness, I fear.
That they will ever haunt me.  All through my life they'll taunt me.
But will they ever want me, green eyes?   Make my dreams come true.

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Listen to Eddie Peabody play "Green Eyes" (mp3)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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