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Thanks For The Memory

Words and Music by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger - 1937

Number 1 on the Hit Parade in 1938, played for 10 weeks.

Chorus:
C7	F	-                F#dim	C7             F
D#dim          C7	F#dim          Gm7	Gm             Gm7	C7
C7	F	-                F#dim	C7             F
D#dim          C7	F#dim          Gm7	Gm             Gm7	C7            Eb7
Ab	Eb9              Eb7	Ab	F#dim
C                 Am	Dm               G7	Gm7            C7	C+             Edim
C7	F	-                F#dim	C7             F
D#dim          C7	F#dim          Gm7	Gm              C7	F          (repeat)

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

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Chorus:

Thanks for the memory, of rainy afternoons, Swingy Harlem tunes,
And motor trips and burning lips and burning toast and prunes, How lovely it was.
Thanks for the memory, of candlelight and wine, Castles on the Rhine,

Your cozy chair and parties where we sang "Sweet Adaline," How lovely it was.
Many's the time that we feasted, And many's the time that we fasted,
Oh well, it was swell while it lasted, We did have fun, and no harm done.
And thanks for the memory, of sunburns on the shore, nights in Singapore.

You might have been a headache, but you never were a bore, So thank you so much.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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