Egyptian Ella (C)
Words and Music by Walter Doyle
Key: Am
Copyright 1930

File Created 05/29/2019

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Verse 1:

Am                          B7              E7
Ella was a dancing girl who started getting fat
B7                E7                 Am   E7
Ev'ry day brought two more pounds to Ella
Am
Till one day she found she'd lost her
B7             E7
job because of that,

B7               E7                  Am
Then, to make it worse, she lost her "fella."
    Dm                            Am
And so she sailed to Egypt to for-get
    B7                         Ddim
But she made such a hit that's she's
B7    E7  E7
there yet

Chorus 1:

       Am        Am/maj7     Am7       Am6
If you hear of a gal who can shake and quake
        Fmaj7     Am         F7      Am
Till it makes you think of a nervous snake,
        E7                   Am
They're speakin' of Egyptian Ella

    Am         Am/maj7    Am7        Am6
She weighs two-twenty but they don't care,
     Fm/maj7  Am          F7      Am
They like 'em plenty that way out there,
    E7                    Am
She has the love of ev'ry fella

    Dm                              Am
She does a dance with certain parts By the river Nile,
    Dm
The boys all take their old sweethearts
    B7               E7
And throw ‘em to the crocodiles,

    Am    Am/maj7      Am7  Am6
And ev'ry Sheik in the audi-ence
      Fm/maj7Am         F7       Am
Jumps up and yells that she's im-mense,
E7                     Am    E7Am
How they love Egyptian Ella.

Verse 2:

Am                             B7            E7
All the other dancers from the desert to the Nile,
B7            E7                Am
One by one ad-mit that they are jealous
Am
For altho' they dance each night and
B7                  E7
wear their sweetest smile
   
B7               E7                 Am
Ella's tents the one that draws the fellas
    Dm                                    Am
And yet her dance is something they can't steal
    B7
For nothing else could do it
DdimB7 E7  E7
but an Eel

Chorus 2:

         Am          Am/maj7      Am7   Am6
When the first sweet notes of the music sound
    Fm/maj7  Am          F7      Am
The boys all gather from miles a-round
        E7           Am
Just to see Egyptian Ella;

    Am        Am/maj7         Am7  Am6
And folks all know when those cara-vans
      Fm/maj7    Am       F7     Am
Start pouring in from the desert sands
     E7                  Am
That it must be Egyptian Ella;

Dm                                     Am
Then Mister Sphinx sits up and blinks, there's so much to see,
Dm
She squirms and shakes so the worms and snakes ,
    B7                   E7
All bite themselves from jealousy,

        Am        Am/maj7  Am7       Am6
She's a great big gal in a great big land
        Fm.maj7  Am         F7        Am
And the boys all give her a great big hand,
E7                     Am
How they love Egyptian Ella.

Chorus 3:

    Am          Am/maj7       Am7     Am6
The boys hang a-round but she plainly states
    Fm/maj7 Am     F7        Am
She doesn't care a fig about dates;
         E7         Am
And they can't make Egyptian Ella

  Am             Am/maj7    Am7      Am6
A Sheik tried to kidnap her once I'm told
        Fm/maj7  Am           F7       Am
But she shook so much that he lost his hold,
   E7                     Am
He couldn't take Egyptian Ella.

       Dm                           Am
So the Pasha wrote her a royal note With his royal fist,
Dm
It said because of the dance she does,
      B7           E7
She's on his royal waiting list,

    Am         Am/maj7   Am7       Am6
And that's how fame of a different sort
    Fm/maj7 Am           F7     Am
Has come at last from an indoor sport
E7                  Am
To our own Egyptian Egyption Ella

Ending chords:

E7Am
 

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