My Coloring Book - Brenda Lee
Composers, Ebb, Kander
Original key: C
Intro arpeggio C:
[C]
e|-----------8--|
B|------5-8-----|
G|----5---------|
D|--------------|
A|---7----------|
E|-8------------|
[Intro] refrain (arpeggio chords over voice where marked):
[C] [Cmaj7] [C] [D7]
For those who fancy coloring books and lots of people do
[G7] [C]
Here's a new one for you
[C] [Cmaj7] [C] [Bb]
A most unusual coloring book the kind you never see
[Bb] [Bb] [Dm] [G7] [C] [F] [C] [G] [C]
Crayons ready, very well begin to color me
Verse 1
[C] [F] [C] [G] [C] [F] [C]
These are the eyes that watched him When he walked away
[G7] [C] [F] [C] [G7]
Color them gray
[C] [F] [C] [G] [C] [F] [C]
This is the heart that thought he would always be true
[G7] [C] [F] [C]
Color it blue
[C7] [F] [Faug] [Dm] [Faug] [F]
These are the arms that held him and touched him and lost him somehow
[F] [Em] [F(b5)] [Em] [F(b5)] [Em] [C]
Color them empty now
Verse 2
[C] [F] [C] [G] [C] [F] [C]
These are the beads, I wore until she came between
[G7] [C] [F] [C]
Color them green
[C7] [F] [Faug] [Dm] [Faug] [Dm] [Faug] [Dm]
This is the room I sleep in and walk in and weep in, and hide in that nobody sees
[F] [Em] [F(b5)] [Em] [F(b5)] [Em] [C]
Color it lonely, please
Outro
[C] [F] [C] [G] [C] [F] [C]
This is the boy whose love I depended upon
[G7] [C] [F] [C] [Dm7] [C]
Color him gone
