Words & Music by Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
Recorded by Nat "King" Cole
[Db6]
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you.
[Dbmaj7] [Bb7b9] [Ebm7] [Ab7]
You're so like the lady with the mystic smile.
[Ebm7] [Ab7]
Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you
[Ebm7] [Ab7] [Dbmaj7] [Ab7]
For that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile?
[Db6]
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa,
[Dbmaj7] [Db7] [Gbmaj7]
Or is this the way you hide a broken heart?
[Gbm7] [B7] [Dbmaj7] [Bb7b9]
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep.
[Ebm7] [Ab7] [Dbmaj7] [Db7]
They just lie there, and they die there.
[Gbmaj7] [Gdim7] [Fm7] [Bb7b9]
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa,
[Ebm7] [Ab7] [Db6] ([Ebm7] [Ab7])
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?
[Instrumental, same chords as first eight bars]
[Db6]
[Dbmaj7] [Bb7b9] [Ebm7] [Ab7]
[Ebm7] [Ab7]
[Ebm7] [Ab7] [Dbmaj7] [Ab7]
[Db6]
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa,
[Dbmaj7] [Db7] [Gbmaj7]
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
[Gbm7] [B7] [Dbmaj7] [Bb7b9]
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep;
[Ebm7] [Ab7] [Dbmaj7] [Db7]
They just lie there, and they die there.
[Gbmaj7] [Gdim7] [Fm7] [Bb7b9]
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa,
[Ebm7] [Ab7] [Db6]
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?
[Ebm7b5] [Ab7b9] [Db6]
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa.
