Key: G
Introduction:
G
We got sunlight on the sand,
We got moonlight on the sea,
D
We got mangoes and bananas
You can pick right off the tree,
G
We got volleyball and ping-pong
And a lot of dandy games!
C
What ain't we got?
D F# G
We ain't got dames!
G
We get packages from home,
We get movies, we get shows,
D
We get speeches from our skipper
And advice from Tokyo Rose,
G
We get letters doused with perfume
We get dizzy from the smell!
C
What don't we get?
D F# G
You know darn well!
B7 C
We have nothin' to put on a clean white suit for
A7
What we need is what there ain't no
G D
substitute for...
G
There is nothin' like a dame,
D G D
Nothin' in the world,
G
There is nothin' you can name
C G
That is anythin' like a dame!
We feel restless, we feel blue,
E A E
?.Nothin' else was built the same,
A E
Nothin' in the world
A
As the soft and wavy frame
D
Like the silhouette of a dame!
E7
There is absolutely nothin' like a frame of a dame.
G?.
G
There are no books like a dame,
A7
And nothin' looks like a dame.
B7
There are no drinks like a dame,
C
And nothin' thinks like a dame,
D7
Nothin' acts like a dame,
E7
Or attracts like a dame.
D7
There ain't a thing that's wrong with any man here
A7
That can't be cured by putting him near
D
A girly, womanly, female, feminine dame!