Thanks for the Memory

"THANKS FOR THE MEMORY"
Words & Music by Leo Robin & Ralph Rainger
Recorded by The Shep Fields Orchestra, Bob Hope vocal, 1937
 
Bob Hope and Shirley Ross performance:  https://youtu.be/nKgUq5dziEk
From the 1938 film "Big Broadcast of 1938" (Academy Award winner)
 
Song History:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanks_for_the_Memory
 
 
 
[Refrain 1]
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Thanks....for the memory...
 
[Verse 1]
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Of candlelight and wine, castles on the Rhine
     E            F#m           Bm             E
The Parthenon and moments on the Hudson River Line
    D      Dm  Cm    E
How lovely      it  was!
 
 
[Refrain 2]
E     Fm          A      F#m
Thanks....for the memory...
 
[Verse 2]
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Of rainy afternoons, swingy Harlem tunes
    E               F#m              Bm                E
And motor trips and burning lips and burning toast and prunes
      E    D       A
How lovely    it  was!

 
 
[Bridge]
A                         D       E
Many's the time that we feasted
     A                       D       E
And many's the time that we fasted
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Oh, well, it was swell while it lasted
   G                E
We did have fun and no harm done.
 
 
[Refrain 3]
    E     Fm          A      F#m
And thanks....for the memory...
 
[Verse 3]
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Of sunburns at the shore, nights in Singapore
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You might have been a headache but you never were a bore
    D      Dm  Cm    E
So thank you    so  much.
 
 
[Refrain 4]
E     Fm          A      F#m
Thanks....for the memory...
 
[Verse 4]
   A           Em       E           Cm
Of sentimental verse, nothing in my purse
     E                 F#m              Bm             E
And chuckles when the preacher said "For better or for worse"
D          Dm  Cm    E
How lovely       it  was
 
 
[Refrain 5]
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Thanks....for the memory...
 
[Verse 5]
    A            Em     E            Cm
Of lingerie with lace, Pilsner by the case
    E               F#m                Bm            E
And how I jumped the day you trumped my one-and-only ace
    D      E         A
How lovely    that   was!
 
 
[Bridge]
A                      D        E
We said goodbye with a highball
     A                     D        E
Then I got as "high" as a steeple   (Did you?)
G             Bm         Am      D
But we were intelligent people
G                      E
No tears, no fuss, Hooray! For us!
 
 
[Refrain 6]
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Thanks....for the memory...
 
 
[Verse 6]
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And strictly entre-nous, darling how are you?
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And how are all the little dreams that never did come true?
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Aw'flly glad I met you, cheerio, and toodle-oo
 
 
[Outro]
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And thank you so much.
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