Words & Music by Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
Recorded by Nat "King" Cole, 1950 (#1) (Academy award winner, 1950)
([Gmaj7]) [C] [F] [C]
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa men have named you;
[C/B] [Am7] [Am7/G] [Dm7] [G7]
You're so like the lady with the mystic smile.
[Dm] [Dm7] [G7sus4] [G7]
Is it only 'cause you're lonely men have blamed you
[G] [G/A] [G/B] [G] [C]
For the Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile?
[C6] [C] [C6] [C] [F] [C]
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Li-sa,
[C7] [F]
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
[Fm] [C]
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep;
[G7] [Gmaj7] [C]
They just lie there, and they die there.
[C7] [F] [Fm] [C]
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa,
[Dm7] [G7] [Dm7] [G7] [C]
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art.
[C6] [C] [C6] [C] [F] [C]
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Li-sa,
[C7] [F]
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
[Fm] [C]
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep;
[G7] [Gmaj7] [C]
They just lie there, and they die there.
[C7] [F] [Fm] [C]
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa,
[Dm7] [G7] [Dm7] [G7] [C]
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art.
[Fm] [G7] [Fm] [C] [C7] [G7] [C]
Mona Lisa, Mona Li-sa.
