Charles Aznavour – How Sad Venice Can Be (Guitar)

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aka "Que c'est triste Venise" BY: Gene Lees (Lyrics-English); Francoise Dorin (Lyrics-French) [Key - Bb] [VERSE 1]
Bb
How sad Venice can be

     F
When you return alone

   Gm
To find a memory

                F
In every paving stone.

Cm
I walk among the birds

     F
That fill San Marco's Square

     C
With echoes of her words

                 F
Around me in the air.
[CHORUS]
Bb
How sad Venice can be

         G
When the mandolins play

  Cm
A song she sung for me

                F
One unforgotten day.

Bb
Like images of sleep

Eb
The gondoliers go by

    Cm
But when I try to weep

  F                 Bb
I find my tears are dry.
[Key Change - B] [VERSE 2]
B
How sad Venice can be

     Abm
When mist is in your eyes

            C#m
And you can hardly see

                    F#
As pigeons fill the skies.

  C#m
I find the little street

    F#
And then the old café

      C#m
Where we would always meet

                  F#
To dream away the day.
[CHORUS]
B
How sad Venice can be

   A                Ab
Be-neath the silent moon

 C#m
That rises from the sea

                   F#
And silvers the la-goon.

  B
I hear the vespers chime

    Abm
And cross the Bridge of Sighs

  C#m
I know that it is time

   F#               B
To bid my last good-byes.
[Key Change - C] [SEGUE]
C
There's nothing more to say

  F
I pass beneath the light

           Dm
And then I turn away

     G             C
From Venice in the night.
[OUTRO]
C
How sad Venice can be

     F             A
It's too lonely to bare

     F
When you have lost the love

     G              C
That you discovered there.