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Three Little Words

Words by Burt Kalmar, Music by Harry Ruby - 1930

Verse:
C	Gm    A7	Dm	Fm6
C                  Dm	-        Em      F	G6	G7
C	Gm    A7	Dm	Fm6
C                  Dm	-                  G7	C	-
Em                B7	-        A7     B7	Em	A9
G                  D7	-        Em     D7	G7	-
Chorus:
C	-	-	Ebm6      Ebdim
G7	-	-              C	Cdim        G7
C	-	-	Ebm6      Ebdim
G7	-	-              C	Cdim        G7
C7	-	Gm7	C7
F	-	Fdim       F6	Ab7          G7
C	-	-	Ebm6      Ebdim
G7	-	C	-        (G7 to chorus)

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

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Verse:

Three words in my dictionary,

I never could see,

But to my vocabulary,

I've added those three.

I'm waiting for someone,

To say them to me.

 

Chorus:

Three little words, Oh! what I'd give for,

That wonderful phrase. To hear those,

Three little words, That's all I'd live for,

The rest of my days, And what I,

Feel in my heart they tell sincerely,

No other words can tell it half, so clearly,

Three little words, eight little letters,

Which simply mean, "I love you!"

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Performer Links:

(webpage)

 

Listen to the Reynolds Brothers perform "Three Little Words" (mp3)

 

Listen to the Buckingham Banjos perform "Three Little Words" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com