Margarita
Harvey Andrews
Capo:IV (The original recording is in the key of Ab but a YouTube version of Harvey
Andrews singing this live is in A so it would need capo at fret 3)
Intro:
G C Am F G
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C Am F G
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Verse 1:
N/C C G Am
They're playing our song, Margarita
F G
Dance it this last time with me.
C G Am
It won't be long, Margarita
F G
Soon I'll be overseas.
C E
Let me know that you'll care
F F/C Fm
When I've gone over there.
C G
They're playing our song, Margarita.
F Dm7 C
Dance it this last time with me.
Verse 2:
G C G Am
Kiss me again, Margarita.
F G
Give me a memory of you.
C G Am
They say in France, Margarita,
F G
One more push, we'll be through.
C E
Yes, I'll write, but where from?
F F/C Fm
All they'll say is 'The Somme'.
C G
Kiss me again, Margarita.
F Dm7 C
Give me a memory of you.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/h/harvey_andrews/margarita_crd.html ]
Chorus:
Am Dm
It's a new world, Margarita,
G C
That we'll build when it's through.
Am Dm
In that new world, Margarita,
D G
We'll be wed, me and you.
Verse 3:
N/C C G Am
My old great aunt Margarita,
F G
She'd been blind thirty years,
C G Am
Would tell me of young Margarita
F G
Of her man and her tears.
C E
She would say 'He was tall,
F F/C Fm
There's his picture on the wall.'
C G
My old great aunt Margarita,
F Dm7 C
She'd been blind thirty years.
Verse 4:
G C G Am
And she would ask, 'Is he smiling?'
F G
I would stare at the frame,
C G Am
But the sun was there shining
F G
Through her window again.
C E
Where that sun always shone
F F/C Fm
He had faded and gone.
C G
But she would ask 'Is he smiling?'
F Dm7 C
I would say 'He's the same'.
Chorus:
Am Dm
It's a new world, Margarita,
G C
That we'll build when it's through.
Am Dm
In that new world, Margarita,
D G
We'll be wed, me and you.
Repeat verse 1
