Down in the Subway
Music by Jean Schwartz
Key: C
Lyrics by William Jerome
Copyright 1904

File Created 01/02/2021
File Updated 02/09/2024

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Verse 1:

          C                       C7
There's a new place at last to go spooning
      F          Dm           F
Where lovers can love with de-light
       C7                       C      C7
In the future just cut out your mooning
    F          Fdim            F   C7
And banish the stars from your site

     C                   C7
Good-bye to the auto and trolley
  F           Dm            F
A new lover's lane has been found
      G7                        C
Where love sick young Jimmy and Mol-ly
    D7            G7          C     C+
Can spoon day and night under-ground

Chorus:

F    Fdim   C   C7
Down in the sub-way
C   C7     F    C7
Oh, what a place
F         Fdim        C   C7
Under the isle of Man-hat-tan
G7               C    C7
Speeding through space

F        Fdim      C     C7
Just the place for spoon-ing
C       C7     F
All the season 'round
GdimF     FdimF
Way down, way down
              G7    C7        F     C7
In the subway under neath the ground

Verse 2:

        C                        C7
Now the man in the moon looks de-serted
    F              Dm           F
His face wears the smile of des-pair
      C                       C7
Under-ground it is broadly as-serted
         F           Fdim      F   C7
That the ”L" road is up in the air

    C                      C7
The show girl and even her chappie
     F          Dm         F
Will now lead a sub cellar life
   G7                     C
If married and home is un-happy
        D7         G7           C    C+
You can now hide a-way from your wife

Chorus Repeat:


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