{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2815406,"song":"Alma","artist":"Tom Lehrer","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11639642-alma-chords-by-tom-lehrer/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2815406?type=chord","rating":4.82265,"votes":13,"content":"3/4 time, 110 bpm\r\nCapo 1st fret (to get original key of F)\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n[ch]E[/ch] [ch]F#m[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe loveliest girl Vienna[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWas Alma, the smartest as well[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nOnce you picked her up on your antenna,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou'd never be free of her spell.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHer lovers were many and varied,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFrom the day she began her -- beguine.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em7[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nThere were three famous ones whom she married,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd who knows how many between.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 1]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAlma, tell us! All modern women are jealous.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]C#[/ch] [ch]F#m[/ch] [ch]B7[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhich of your magical wands got you Gustav and Walter and Franz?[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe first one she married was Mahler,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhose buddies all knew him as Gustav.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd each time he saw her he'd holler:[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n\"Ach, that is the fraulein I moost have!\"[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTheir marriage, however, was murduh[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe'd scream to the heavens above,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em7[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]\r\n\"I'm writing Das Lied von der Erde,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd she only wants to make love!\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 2]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAlma, tell us! All modern women are jealous[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]C#[/ch] [ch]F#m[/ch] [ch]B7[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou should have a statue in bronze for bagging Gustav & Walter & Franz[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhile married to Gus, she met Gropius,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd soon she was swinging with Walter.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nGus died, and her tear drops were copious.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe cried all the way to the altar.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut he would work late at the Bauhaus,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd only came home now and then[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em7[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nShe said, \"What am I running, a chow house?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nIt's time to change parters again.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 3]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAlma, tell us! All modern women are jealous[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThough you didn't even use Ponds,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C#[/ch] [ch]F#m[/ch] [ch]B7[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou got Gustav and Walter and Franz[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhile married to Walt she'd met Werfel,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd he too was caught in her net.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe married her, but he was careful,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n'cause Alma was no Bernadette.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd that is the story of Alma,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWho knew how to receive and to give[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em7[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nThe body that reached her embalma'[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nWas one that had known how to live![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 4]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAlma, tell us! How can they help being jealous?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]C#[/ch] [ch]F#m[/ch] [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nDucks always envy the swans who get Gustav and Walter,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F#m[/ch] [ch]B7[/ch] [ch]F#m[/ch] [ch]B7[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou never did falter, with Gustav and Walter and Franz[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[ch]B7[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]","plain_text":"3/4 time, 110 bpm\nCapo 1st fret (to get original key of F)\n\n[Intro]\nE F#m B\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 1]\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 2]\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 3]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 4]\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\nB7 E","chords":["F","E","F#m","B","A","C","G","D7","Em7","A7","F#","C#","B7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,3],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"Em7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,0,3,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,3,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}