Tip Toe Through The Tulips
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Key: Bb
Composed by Joe Burke
Copyight 1929

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File Created 03/01/2019
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Verse 1:

Bb        Cm7       F7
Shades of night are creeping
Cm7    F7        Gm
Willow trees are weeping
F7            F7+5             Bb  C7F7
Old folks and babies are sleep ing

Bb     Cm7       F7
Silver stars are gleaming
Cm7 F7        Gm
All alone I'm scheming
F7          F7+5        Bb
Scheming to get you out here,
G7 C7
my dear.

Chorus:

F7  Bb       G7     Cm7   F7
ComeTip-toe, to the window
       Bb    D7+5    Eb         Ebm
By the windowThat is where I'll be
     Bb      G7
Come tip-toe  thru'
    Cm7    F7   Bb G7C7F7
The tulips with me

Bb      G7        Cm7    F7
Tip-toe from your pillow
       Bb    D7+5 Eb     Ebm
To the shadowof a willow tree
    Bb      G7
And tip-toe thru'
    Cm7    F7   Bb EbBb
The tulips with me

Bb7  Eb    BbdimDm7           G7
Knee deep, in flowers we'll stray
      A7        Dm7     BbdimF7
We'll keep, the showers a-way

G7  C9 F7Bb        G7     Cm7    F7
And if I kiss you, In the garden,
       Bb       D7+5     Eb     Ebm
In the moonlightWill you pardon me
     Bb      G7        Cm7    F7   Bb
Come tip-toe Thru' the tulips with me
EbBbF7


Verse 2:

Bb      Cm7     F7
Come on out and pet me
Cm7      F7   Gm
Come and Juli et me
F7           F7+5      Bb       C7F7
Tease me and slyly coq-uette me

Bb     Cm7 F7
Let me Rom-eo you
Cm7    F7      Gm
I just want to show you
F7           F7+5       Bb G7  C7  F7
How much I'm willing to do for you.

Chorus Repeat:

Bb


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