Thanks For The Memory - Bob Hope Chords
Chords: FOR, From, Award, E13, Fdim, A6, F#m, A, Edim, E7
More chords by Bob Hope
Genre: pop, jazz, standards
"THANKS FOR THE MEMORY"
Words & Music by Leo Robin & Ralph Rainger
Recorded by The Shep Fields Orchestra, Bob Hope vocal, 1937
Bob Hope and Shirley Ross performance: https://youtu.be/nKgUq5dziEk
From the 1938 film "Big Broadcast of 1938" (Academy Award winner)
Song History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanks_for_the_Memory
[Refrain 1]
E13 Fdim A6 F#m
Thanks....for the memory...
[Verse 1]
A Edim E7 Cdim
Of candlelight and wine, castles on the Rhine
E7 F#m7 Bm7-5 E7
The Parthenon and moments on the Hudson River Line
D9 Dm6 Cdim E7
How lovely it was!
[Refrain 2]
E13 Fdim A6 F#m
Thanks....for the memory...
[Verse 2]
A Edim E7 Cdim
Of rainy afternoons, swingy Harlem tunes
E7 F#m7 Bm7-5 E7
And motor trips and burning lips and burning toast and prunes
E7 D9 A
How lovely it was!
[Bridge]
A AM7 D9 E7
Many's the time that we feasted
A AM7 D9 E7
And many's the time that we fasted
G Bm7 Am7 D7
Oh, well, it was swell while it lasted
G G/F# E7
We did have fun and no harm done.
[Refrain 3]
E13 Fdim A6 F#m
And thanks....for the memory...
[Verse 3]
A Edim E7 Cdim
Of sunburns at the shore, nights in Singapore
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