Charles Aznavour / Herbert Kretzmer

[Intro:] A9 G/A A9 G/A A9 G/A F#m7 Bm7 E7(9)(11) A9

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She may be the face I can't forget,
                          Bm7
A trace of pleasure or regret,
        E7(9)(11) E/D
May be my treasure or
   A7M/C#         Em7(9)/B A7(13)
The price I have to pay

 D/F#                        G7(9)(11)
She may be the song that summer sings,
         G7(9)(#11)         C#7(13) C#7(b13)
May be the chill that autumn brings,
        F#7(9)(11) F#7(b9)     B7(13) B7(b13)
May be a   hundred   different things
        E7(9)(11) E7(b9)      A9 G/A A9
Within the measure      of a day

She may be the beauty or the beast,
May be the famine or the feast,
May turn each day into a
Heaven or a hell

 D/F#                     G7(9)(11)
She may be the mirror of my dream,
        G7(9)(#11)     C#7(13) C#7(b13)
A smile reflected in a stream,
 F#7(9)(11)   F#7(b9)      B7(13) B7(b13)
She may not be what she may seem
E7(9)(11) E7(b9)      A9 G/A F7M
Inside          her shell

                                    C7M
She who always seems so happy in a crowd,
                        Bb7M
Whose eyes can be so private and so proud,
                            A7M    C#7(#9) F#m7(9) F#m7(9)/E Dm7
No one's allowed to see them   when they    cry
            G7(9)(11)   G7(9)           C7M
She may be the love that cannot hope to last,
            F#m7      B7           E7M  B/D#
May come to me from shadows of the past,
         C#m7 C#m7/B   E7(9)(11) E6(b9)
That I remember till the  day   I die

She may be the reason I survive,
The why and wherefore I'm alive,
The one I'll care for through the
Rough and ready years

D/F#                            G7(9)(11)
Me, I'll take her laughter and her tears
 G7(9)(#11)          F#m7
And make them all my souvenirs
    A7(13)                  E7(9)(11)
For where she goes I've got to be
   E6(b9)          A9         G/A
The meaning of my life is she,

Fim: A9 G/A