Oh, You Beautiful Doll – On the Rocks

by Brown and Ayer – Key of D

Oh, You Beautiful Doll is a ragtime love song published in 1911 with words by Seymour Brown and music by Nat D. Ayer. The song was one of the first with a twelve-bar opening. The tune has been recorded hundreds of times by many artists from first publication until recent times.

 {t: Oh, You Beautiful Doll }  
{key: G}  
{artist:Judy Garland}  
Nat Ayer , Brown, Irvin Berlin  - Judy Garland: 
  (patient – it’s there)  Capo 1             
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[G] Oh! You beautiful [E7] doll,   
You [A7] great big beautiful doll,   
[D7] Let me put my arms about you;   
[G] I could never live without [Eb7] you.   
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[G] Oh! You beautiful [E7] doll,   
You [A7] great big beautiful doll!   
If you [G] ever leave me   
How my heart will ache;   
I [Eb7] want to hug you but I fear you'd break.   
[G] Oh, [B7] oh, [Em] oh, [E7] oh,   
[A7] Oh, you beau[D7]tiful [G] doll. [D7]   
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[G] Oh! You beautiful [E7] doll,   
You [A7] great big beautiful doll,   
[D7] Let me put my arms about you;   
[G] I could never live without [Eb7] you.   
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[G] Oh! You beautiful [E7] doll,   
You [A7] great big beautiful doll!   
If you [G] ever leave me   
How my heart will ache;   
I [Eb7] want to hug you but I fear you'd break.   
[G] Oh, [B7] oh, [Em] oh, [E7] oh,   
[A7] Oh, you beau[D7]tiful [G] doll.    
      
     
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