Nellie Takes Her Bow

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Who thanked the Lord for the clothes that she wore and mended 
 
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Nellie with the big old fashioned eyes 
 
C C+ Am 
Who won the heart of a crowd tore apart, took a bow 
 
C7 F G C 
Nellie there‘s a different world backstage 
 
 
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I see the flood lights burning 
 
Bb Fmaj7 
I hear the band play on 
 
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Now Nel---lie takes her bow 
 
 
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She said she really could not stay 
 
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Nellie she had a brand new play to play 
 
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And so she paints her face and smiles 
 
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And she‘ll be some one else in a while 
 
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Just another lonely girl who could not face a broken world 
 
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And so she acts out all her dreams 
 
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and wishes that‘s how it had been 
 
F 
But when the audience is near 
 
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It seems as though she doesn‘t seem to care 
 
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Nellie just sent me a line to tell me she was doing fine 
 
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She got the lead and on Brodway 
 
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And now they‘re digging her today 
 
F 
And as she turns the final page 
 
G C 
Living some one‘s life upon the stage 
 
(Chorus)