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These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You

Words by Eric Maschwitz (as Holt Marvell),  Music by Jack Strachey & Harry Linck - 1935

Number 1 on the Hit Parade in 1935,  played for 13 weeks.

Chorus:
F               Dm	Gm             C7	F               Dm	G9             C7
F9              F+	Bb              D7	G9	Gm            C7
F               Dm	Gm             C7	F               Dm	G9             C7
F9              F+	Bb              D7	G9             C7	F                E7
Am	E7	Am	D9
C               Am	G7	C7           Cdim	Gm            C7
F               Dm	Gm             C7	F               Dm	G9             C7
F9              F+	Bb              D7	G9             C7	F           (C7 repeat)

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

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Chorus:

A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces,  An airline ticket to romantic places,

And still my heart has wings.  These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You.

A tingling piano in the next apartment,  Those stumb1ing words that told you what my heart meant,
A fairground's painted swings,  These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You.
You came,  You saw,  You conquerd me.
When you did that to me,  I knew somehow this had to be.
The winds of march that make my heart a dancer,  A telephone that rings but who's to answer?
Oh, how the ghost of you clings.  These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You.

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Listen to the WineLand Banjo Band perform "These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You" (mp3)

Vocal by Randi Shore

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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