Louisa Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]Lou[B]isa[A] was a mov[D]ie queen[Bb]
Be[G]fore she'd achieved
[A]the age of sweet sixteen
[D]Long before Cagney threw those
[G]girls about
Little [E]Louisa [A]tossed her curls about
Later [D]when the [Daug]talkies came
The [C]whole world re[Em]sounded
to her [C#]fame
[A]Each time she married
Every daily paper carried
Headlines blazing her name
Not only headlines
But photographs and interviews
Every thing she did was news
that held the world in thrall
Some say she [D]read lines [A]better than
[D]Marléne could
[A]No other entertainer could
Compete with her at all
But re[G]gardless of the [A]fact
That she could sing and dance
[B]and act
[G]And owned furniture that wasn't
[C]"Little [D]Rockery"[Dm]
[D]And regard[Em]less of her gems,
[A]which were hers n[F#m]ot MGM[B]'s
Her [Em]life was one [A]long mockery
[Adim][Gm][F#dim][Adim]

[Verse 2]
[Am]
[C]Lou[F]isa was terribly lonely
[Gm]Sucess brought her naught
but [C]despair
She de[Bb]rived little fun
[C]From the oscars she'd won
[F]And [Am]none[Dm]
From her [G]home in Bel [C]Aire
[F]She said she was weary of liv[Dm]ing[F]
On this [Gm]bestial, terrestrial [A]plane
When [D]friends came [Ebdim]to visit[D]
Their [G]hands she would clutch
Crying, [C]"Tell me why is it
I [F]suffer so much?
[Bb]Oh, if only, if [Gdim]only, if[F] only
[Gm]My life wasn't quite such a [A]strain."[D]
And [Gm]soon after [C#]that she
[A]was ter[Am]ribly [D]lonely
[Gm]All [C]over again
[F][Bb][C]

[Verse 3]
[F][C]
[F]Louisa was terribly lonely
[Gm]Louisa was terribly [C]sad
It [F]ap pears that the [Bb]cheers
that had [C]rung in her [Bb]ears
[Dm]For [D]years had been d[G]riving h[F]er mad
[C]She[F] sobbed when men
offered her sables
And [Gm]moaned when they gave
her champag[A]ne
She re[D]marked to her groom
on their honey[G]moon night
As he [C]tenderly kissed her and
[F]switched off the light
"Oh, If [Bb]only, [Gm]if only,[Gdim] if onl[Bbm]y[F]
I'd flun[Gm]g myself out of
[A]that plane..."[Ebdim][D]
[Gm]And the very next day [Bb]she
was [A]terribly [D]lonely
[Gm]All [C]over again
[F]

[Verse 4]
[C][B]
[E]Louisa was terribly [A]lonely
[B](The girl [E]had [B]no [E]fun)
[B]Louisa [A]was tir[D]ed of it all[Bm]
[B](Not a cal[Bdim]l from a[B]nyone)
She [E]gazed like a dazed, frustrated sphinx
[A]At her hun[F#m]dred and eight
[E]new [C#m]tated minx
And she [F#m]wrung her hands
And she beat her breast
[E]Crying, "My[B], my, my,
I'm so depressed."
[E]Nobody [Eaug]knew the tr[E]oubles
she'd seen
Nobody knew, but you- know- [C#]who
The tribu[F#]la ti[B]ons of a movie queen
[E]So, farewell

[Verse 5]
to lovely Louisa
(We'll just let life [F#m]tease her.)
Let's leave her searching
in [G#]vain
(Find someone to explain.)
Why [C#]destiny
Singled her out to be
[F#m]Only
[F#dim]Lonely[Am][A][Am]
Over and over again
[E][Bbdim][A][E]