Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Words by Otto Harbach, Music by Jerome Kern, 1933
Recorded by The Platters,1958 (#1)
From the 1933 musical "Roberta," starring Bob Hope


  E    E+7     E7   F#m7
They asked me how I knew 

B7                E    E+   A 
My true love was true;

Gdim    Edim     E6
I   of course replied,

E          E+7    F#m7 
"Something here inside 

B7          E      C#m    A    B7
Cannot be denied."


  E   E+7        E7         F#m
They said, "Someday you'll find 

 B7               E     E+   A 
All who love are blind.

Gdim      Edim        E6
When your heart's on fire, 

 E       E+7   F#m7
You must re-al-ize 

B7                   E     Am7      E      G      G7
Smoke gets in your eyes."


Bridge:

       C          C/B           Am7 
So I chaffed them and I gaily laughed 

    Am7/G            G   Gdim  G  G7
To think they could doubt my love

  C          C/B         Am7
Yet today my love has flown away, 

 Am7/G    E  E+7 F#m7   B7
I am without my love.


  E    E+7     E7       F#m
Now laughing friends deride 

   B7           E    E+   A
Tears I cannot hide;

Gdim   Edim       E6   
So   I smile and say, 

  E     E+7           F#m
"When a lovely flame dies, 

  B7/9     B7        E     F#m    E   C#m
Smoke gets in your eyes."


Coda:

  A   AM7  Am7 Am7/G   E
Smoke gets in  your  eyes.

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