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Somebody Else Is Taking My Place

Words and Music by Dick Howard, Bob Elsworth and Russs Morgan - 1937

Number 1 on the Hit Parade in 1942, played for 12 weeks.

Verse:
Gm                      D7	Eb7	Gm           Adim	D7
-	-	Gm	-
-                          D7	A7             Eb7	D	-                       F#dim
C7	-               Cdim   C7	F7	F+7
Chorus:
Bb	G7	C7	-
F7	-	Bb	-                 Bb7
Eb	-	Bb              Bb7	G7
C	-	F7	-
Bb	G7	C7	-
F7	-	Bb	-                 Bb7
Eb	-	Bb               Bb7	G7
C7	F7	Bb	-   (F7 repeat chorus)

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

This song is in the key of Bb.

Click here for a chorus arrangement in the key of G.

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Verse:

Sweet was the start of the story,

Of love with an unhappy end.

We had a moment of glory,

And now you're not even a friend. For:

 

Chorus:

Somebody else is taking my place.
Somebody else now shares your embrace,
While I am trying, To keep from crying,
You go around with a smile on your face.
Little you care for vows that you made.

Little you care how much I have paid,

My heart is aching, My heart is breaking,

For Somebody's taking my place.
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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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