Egyptian Ella (F)
Words and Music by Walter Doyle
Key: Cm
Copyright 1930

File Created 05/29/2019

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Verse 1:

Cm                          D7              G7
Ella was a dancing girl who started getting fat
D7                G7                 Cm   G7
Ev'ry day brought two more pounds to Ella
Cm
Till one day she found she'd lost her
D7             G7
job because of that,

D7               G7                  Cm
Then, to make it worse, she lost her "fella."
    Fm                            Cm
And so she sailed to Egypt to for-get
    D7                         Fdim
But she made such a hit that's she's
D7    G7  G7
there yet

Chorus 1:

       Cm        Cm/maj7     Cm7       Cm6
If you hear of a gal who can shake and quake
        Abmaj7    Cm         Ab7     Cm
Till it makes you think of a nervous snake,
        G7                   Cm
They're speakin' of Egyptian Ella

    Cm         Cm/maj7    Cm7        Cm6
She weighs two-twenty but they don't care,
     Abm/maj7 Cm          Ab7     Cm
They like 'em plenty that way out there,
    G7                    Cm
She has the love of ev'ry fella

    Fm                              Cm
She does a dance with certain parts By the river Nile,
    Fm
The boys all take their old sweethearts
    D7               G7
And throw ‘em to the crocodiles,

    Cm    Cm/maj7      Cm7  Cm6
And ev'ry Sheik in the audi-ence
      Abm/maj7Cm         Ab7      Cm
Jumps up and yells that she's im-mense,
G7                     Cm    G7Cm
How they love Egyptian Ella.

Verse 2:

Cm                             D7            G7
All the other dancers from the desert to the Nile,
D7            G7                Cm
One by one ad-mit that they are jealous
Cm
For altho' they dance each night and
D7                  G7
wear their sweetest smile
   
D7               G7                 Cm
Ella's tents the one that draws the fellas
    Fm                                    Cm
And yet her dance is something they can't steal
    D7
For nothing else could do it
FdimD7 G7  G7
but an Eel

Chorus 2:

         Cm          Cm/maj7      Cm7   Cm6
When the first sweet notes of the music sound
    Abm/maj7 Cm          Ab7     Cm
The boys all gather from miles a-round
        G7           Cm
Just to see Egyptian Ella;

    Cm        Cm/maj7         Cm7  Cm6
And folks all know when those cara-vans
      Abm/maj7   Cm       Ab7    Cm
Start pouring in from the desert sands
     G7                  Cm
That it must be Egyptian Ella;

Fm                                     Cm
Then Mister Sphinx sits up and blinks, there's so much to see,
Fm
She squirms and shakes so the worms and snakes ,
    D7                   G7
All bite themselves from jealousy,

        Cm        Cm/maj7  Cm7       Cm6
She's a great big gal in a great big land
        Abm.maj7 Cm         Ab7       Cm
And the boys all give her a great big hand,
G7                     Cm
How they love Egyptian Ella.

Chorus 3:

    Cm          Cm/maj7       Cm7     Cm6
The boys hang a-round but she plainly states
    Abm/maj7Cm     Ab7       Cm
She doesn't care a fig about dates;
         G7         Cm
And they can't make Egyptian Ella

  Cm             Cm/maj7    Cm7      Cm6
A Sheik tried to kidnap her once I'm told
        Abm/maj7 Cm           Ab7      Cm
But she shook so much that he lost his hold,
   G7                     Cm
He couldn't take Egyptian Ella.

       Fm                           Cm
So the Pasha wrote her a royal note With his royal fist,
Fm
It said because of the dance she does,
      D7           G7
She's on his royal waiting list,

    Cm         Cm/maj7   Cm7       Cm6
And that's how fame of a different sort
    Abm/maj7Cm           Ab7    Cm
Has come at last from an indoor sport
G7                  Cm
To our own Egyptian Egyption Ella

Ending chords:

G7Cm
 

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