Misc Musicals – 35Mm A Musical Exhibition - The Party Goes With You (Guitar)

B        G#m                B
We don't speak of names and faces

G#m
Why should we?

B        G#m                  C#m
We don't speak of husbands or homes

           F#
Or work or wives and happy lives

B         G#m             B
All we've got are lips on faces

       G#m
Moving flawlessly

F#                     B   G#m B G#m
Holding secrets in our clothes

B      G#m                B
On the nights I catch you standing

        G#m
Are you waiting for me?

B      G#m             C#m
At the counter of this bar

           F#
Speakeasy, hole in the wall

B     G#m         B
We minuet to cigarette and brandy

G#m           F#
Your favorite armagnac

                           B G#m
Prohibition but there's no harm

    E                    F#
But when you strike your goodbye pose

G#m              C#
Everybody knows, everybody knows

E          F#            G#m
The party, well, it goes too

    C#
And damn it all, darling

E         F#        B G#m
The party goes with you

B       G#m               B
And I'm left with all the messes

        G#m
Da, di, da

B        G#m            C#m
Cleaning up for vows in gold

            F#                B
Our fraught affair turned solitaire

        G#m
Wishing to take back

       B         G#m
Merely one of my yeses

       F#
Aching to be yours

                      B G#m
And have my story all retold

    E                    F#
But when you strike your goodbye pose

G#m              C#
Everybody knows, everybody knows

E          F#            G#m
The party, well, it goes too

    C#
And damn it all, darling

E         F#        G#m C# F#
The party goes with you

    E                  F#
And when we're dancing nose to nose

G#m                         C#
Darling do you suppose, oh, darling do you suppose

E          F#               G#m      C#
This party could be just us two, and I your wife?

    E              F#         G#m
Oh, oh, the gayest party, sad but true

     C#
It's true

E         F#        B G#m
The party goes with you

E         F#  B
The party goes

G#m
with you

                E
The life of the party

       F#          B
In the party of my life