If My Friends Could See Me Now (chromatic)

by Coleman , Fields

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If My Friends Could See Me Now
Key C 4/4
 
 3  -3   -4   4      4    -4  -3  3          
To-night at/eight  /you should-a/seen  /
 3   -3  -3<  -4 -3< -4-3< -4  -3  3  -2<  
 A chauf-fer/pull up in a/rent-ed lim-ou-/
 -2      3   -3    -4     4        4   -3<  3<
Sine   / my neigh-bours/burned   /they like to/
 3       -3 -4  4    -4   4  -4 -5   4  -3<  3< 
Die  /  when I tell them who is/get-tin’ in and/
3  3<  -3  3< -4 -3   3    2
Go-in’ out is/ I if they could//
   -3  3   2~~~~  -3   3   2   -3  3   2~~~~~  4
//:see me now-/- that lit-tle/gang of mine-/- I’m/
-5   5   3  -5  5    3    -5   5   3  -5  5~~~
Eat-ing fan-cy/chow and drink-ing/fan-cy wine-/
~ -4  5    -5    -5< -5  -5<  -5  6  -5< -5  4~~~
-I’d like those/stum-ble/bums to/see for a fact-/
~ -3  -4  5  -5    -5     -5   -5
-the kind of/top drawer/first rate/
  6  -5 -4   3~~~~~ -3  3  2  -3  3   2~~~-3   3  2
chums I at-tract-/- all I can/say is Wow/-ee look-a/
 -3   4 -5~~~ 6   -5   5  -5  4  -3~~~~  -5   4  -3  
where I am-/- to-night I/land-ed pow-/- right in a/
-5 -5<  6~~~~  -5  6 -6< -6<-6< 6 -5~~
pot of jam-/- what a/set up/ho-ly cow}
  -5    5< 5< -5    6   -5 5< -5    6      6
They’d nev-er be-/lieve it if my/friends could/
 6  -5  4~~~~~~~~~ -3   3    2      4
See me now-/----/-
End 1 & 2          if they could://
End 3              if  they could/--- //
 
v.2
See me now my little dusty group
Traipsin’ round this million dollar chicken coop
I’d hear those thrift shop cats say “Brother get her
Draped on a bedspread made from three kinds of fur”
All I can say is Wow wait till the riff and raff
See just exactly how he signed this autograph
What a build up holy cow!
They’d never believe it if my friends could 
See me now
v.3
See me now alone with Mister V who’s
Waitin’ on me like he was a maitre’d
I hear my buddies saying “Crazy what gives
Tonight she’s living like the other half lives”
To think the highest brow 
Which I must say is he
Should pick the lowest brow
Which there’s no doubt is me
What a step up! holy cow!
They’d never believe it, if my friends 
Could see me now
 
Yours Harmusman