Nellie Takes Her Bow

Nellie Takes Her Bow is from the No Answer album. It was the first ELO

Album ever, back when Roy Wood was part of ELO.

 

 

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* lyrics and chords by Shangri-La *

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All music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne

 

 

C C+ Am

Who thanked the Lord for the clothes that she wore and mended

 

C7 F G C

Nellie with the big old fashioned eyes

 

C C+ Am

Who won the heart of a crowd tore apart, took a bow

 

C7 F G C

Nellie there's a different world backstage

 

 

(Chorus:)

A# Fmaj7

I see the flood lights burning

 

A# Fmaj7

I hear the band play on

 

A# Am Gm F F C

Now Nel---lie takes her bow

 

 

C C+ Am

She said she really could not stay

 

C7 F G C

Nellie she had a brand new play to play

 

C C+ Am C7

And so she paints her face and smiles

 

F G C

And she'll be some one else in a while

 

(Chorus)

 

C C+

Just another lonely girl who could not face a broken world

 

And so she acts out all her dreams

 

and wishes that's how it had been

 

But when the audience is near

 

G C

It seems as though she doesn't seem to care

 

C C+

Nellie just sent me a line to tell me she was doing fine

 

She got the lead and on Brodway

 

And now they're digging her today

 

And as she turns the final page

 

G C

Living some one's life upon the stage

 

(Chorus)