{"id":756,"date":"2021-05-10T04:49:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=756"},"modified":"2025-09-22T23:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T23:58:08","slug":"oh-you-beautiful-doll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/oh-you-beautiful-doll\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, You Beautiful Doll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Brown and Ayer &#8211; Key of D<br \/>\n<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea79e83e6e47018625807' value='69ea79e83e6e47018625807'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea79e83e6e47018625807' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea79e83e6e47018625807' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea79e83e6e47018625807' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea79e83e6e47018625807' ><\/p>\n<p>Oh, You Beautiful Doll is a ragtime love song published in 1911 with words by Seymour Brown and music by Nat D. Ayer. The song was one of the first with a twelve-bar opening. The tune has been recorded hundreds of times by many artists from first publication until recent times.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/p>\n<pre> {t: Oh, You Beautiful Doll }  \r\n{key: G}  \r\n{artist:Judy Garland}  \r\nNat Ayer , Brown, Irvin Berlin  - Judy Garland: \r\n  (patient \u2013 it\u2019s there)  Capo 1             \r\n{c: } \r\n[G] Oh! You beautiful [E7] doll,   \r\nYou [A7] great big beautiful doll,   \r\n[D7] Let me put my arms about you;   \r\n[G] I could never live without [Eb7] you.   \r\n{c: } \r\n[G] Oh! You beautiful [E7] doll,   \r\nYou [A7] great big beautiful doll!   \r\nIf you [G] ever leave me   \r\nHow my heart will ache;   \r\nI [Eb7] want to hug you but I fear you'd break.   \r\n[G] Oh, [B7] oh, [Em] oh, [E7] oh,   \r\n[A7] Oh, you beau[D7]tiful [G] doll. [D7]   \r\n{c: } \r\n[G] Oh! You beautiful [E7] doll,   \r\nYou [A7] great big beautiful doll,   \r\n[D7] Let me put my arms about you;   \r\n[G] I could never live without [Eb7] you.   \r\n{c: } \r\n[G] Oh! You beautiful [E7] doll,   \r\nYou [A7] great big beautiful doll!   \r\nIf you [G] ever leave me   \r\nHow my heart will ache;   \r\nI [Eb7] want to hug you but I fear you'd break.   \r\n[G] Oh, [B7] oh, [Em] oh, [E7] oh,   \r\n[A7] Oh, you beau[D7]tiful [G] doll.    \r\n      \r\n     \r\n{c: } \r\n       \r\n  \t\t\t\t<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Brown and Ayer &#8211; Key of D {t: Oh, You Beautiful Doll } {key: G} {artist:Judy Garland} Nat Ayer , Brown, Irvin Berlin &#8211; Judy Garland: (patient \u2013 it\u2019s there) Capo 1 {c: } [G] Oh! You beautiful [E7] doll, You [A7] great big beautiful doll, [D7] Let me &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/oh-you-beautiful-doll\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, You Beautiful Doll<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,116,117,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-love-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}