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Introduction: B G#m B G#m
B G#m B
We don't speak of names and faces
G#m
Why should we?
B G#m C#m
We don't speak of husbands or homes
F#
Or work or wives and happy lives
B G#m B
All we've got are lips on faces
G#m
Moving flawlessly
F# B G#m B G#m
Holding secrets in our clothes
B G#m B
On the nights I catch you standing
G#m
Are you waiting for me?
B G#m C#m
At the counter of this bar
F#
Speakeasy, hole in the wall
B G#m B
We minuet to cigarette and brandy
G#m F#
Your favorite armagnac
B G#m
Prohibition but there's no harm
E F#
But when you strike your goodbye pose
G#m C#
Everybody knows, everybody knows
E F# G#m
The party, well, it goes too
C#
And damn it all, darling
E F# B G#m
The party goes with you
B G#m B
And I'm left with all the messes
G#m
Da, di, da
B G#m C#m
Cleaning up for vows in gold
F# B
Our fraught affair turned solitaire
G#m
Wishing to take back
B G#m
Merely one of my yeses
F#
Aching to be yours
B G#m
And have my story all retold
E F#
But when you strike your goodbye pose
G#m C#
Everybody knows, everybody knows
E F# G#m
The party, well, it goes too
C#
And damn it all, darling
E F# G#m C# F#
The party goes with you
E F#
And when we're dancing nose to nose
G#m C#
Darling do you suppose, oh, darling do you suppose
E F# G#m C#
This party could be just us two, and I your wife?
E F# G#m
Oh, oh, the gayest party, sad but true
C#
It's true
E F# B G#m
The party goes with you
E F# B
The party goes
G#m
with you
E
The life of the party
F# B
In the party of my life