roll up this ad to continue
Intro: C# G#7(4) G#7
C# Eº
She may be the face I can't forget,
D#m7
A trace of pleasure or regret,
May be my treasure or
C# Dº
The price I have to pay
D#m7 A6
She may be the song that summer sings,
C#7M/G#
May be the chill that autumn brings,
Db/F F#
May be a hundred different things
G#7 C# G#7(4) G#7
Within the measure of a day
C# Eº
She may be the beauty or the beast,
D#m7
May be the famine or the feast,
May turn each day into a
C# Dº
Heaven or a hell
D#m7 A6
She may be the mirror of my dream,
C#7M/G#
A smile reflected in a stream,
Db/F F#
She may not be what she may seem
G#7 C# G#7(4) G#7
Inside her shell
A E
She who always seems so happy in a crowd,
D/A
Whose eyes can be so private and so proud,
C#/G#
No one's allowed to see them when they cry
F#m B7 E
She may be the love that cannot hope to last,
C# D#
May come to me from shadows of the past,
D#/C# C
That I remember till the day I die
C# Eº
She may be the reason I survive,
D#m7
The why and wherefore I'm alive,
The one I'll care for through the
C# Dº
Rough and ready years
D#m7 A6
Me, I'll take her laughter and her tears
C#7M/G#
And make them all my souvenirs
Db/F F#
For where she goes I've got to be
G#7 F# Db/F D#m7 G#7(4) G#7 C#
The meaning of my life is she, she, she
Written by Charles Aznavour, Herbert Kretzmer