You're the Top Chords by Louis Armstrong
- Key: Eb
- BPM: 146
- Capo: no capo
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YOU'RE THE TOP CHORDS
[Start] [Verse] Eb E7 Eb Fm ■ ■ At words poetic I'm so pathetic Cm That I always have found it best Fm7 Ab Instead of getting 'em off my chest Bb7 Eb Eb7 To let 'em rest ■ unexpressed Eb Fm I hate parading my serenading Eb Cm D7 As I'll probably miss a bar Gm Cm But if this ditty is not so pretty Cm At least it'll tell you Eb How great you are ■ Eb You're the top Bb7 Eb You're the Coliseum ■ Eb You're the top Eb You're the Louver Museum Eb You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss D7 Gm You're a Bendel bonnet C7 A Shakespeare's sonnet C7 You're Mickey Mouse Bb7 You're the Nile Bb7 You're the Tower of Pisa Bb7 You're the smile on the Mona Lisa Eb I'm a worthless check a total wreck a flop Abmaj7 Bb7 But if baby I'm the bottom you're the top Bb7 Your words poetic are not pathetic Eb On the other hand babe you shine Eb And I can feel after every line Eb A thrill divine Eb7 Down my ■ spine Eb Now gifted humans like Vincent Youmans Ab Might think that your song is bad Ab But I got a notion Ab I'll second the motion Eb And this is what I'm going to add Eb You're the top Cm You're Mahatma Gandhi Cm You're the top Cm You're Napoleon Brandy Cm You're the purple light Cm Of a summer night in Spain Cm You're the National Gallery Cm You're Garbo's salary Cm You're cellophane Cm You're sublime [Chorus] Cm You're turkey dinner Cm You're the time the time of a Derby winner Cm I'm a toy balloon that's fated soon to pop Cm But if baby I'm the bottom Cm You're the top Cm You're the top Cm You're an arrow collar Cm You're the top Cm You're a Coolidge dollar Cm You're the nimble tread Cm Of the feet of Fred Astaire Cm You're an O'Neill drama [Verse] Cm You're Whistler's mama Cm You're camembert Cm You're a rose Cm You're Inferno's Dante Cm You're the nose Eb On the great Durante Eb I'm just in a way Eb As the French would say de trop D7 Gm But if baby I'm the bottom Gm You're the top Gm You're the top C7 You're a dance in Bali C7 You're the top C7 You're a hot tamale Bb7 You're an angel you Bb7 Simply too too too diveen Bb7 You're a Boticcelli You're Keats You're Shelly You're Ovaltine You're a boom [Chorus] Fm7 You're ■ the dam at Boulder Fm7 You're the moon Fm7 Over Mae West's shoulder Fm7 I'm the nominee of the GOP Or GOP Cm But if baby I'm the bottom Cm You're the top Eb You're the top Eb You're a Waldorf salad Ab You're the top Ab You're a Berlin ballad Fm7 Abmaj7 You're the boats that glide F7 On the sleepy Zuider Zee F7 You're an old Dutch master F7 You're Lady Astor F7 You're broccoli Eb You're romance Eb You're the steppes of Russia Fm7 Eb You're the pants on a Roxy usher Eb I'm a broken doll a folderol a blop Eb But if baby I'm the bottom Eb You're the top [End]