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[Verse]
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The loveliest girl Vienna
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Was Alma, the smartest as well
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Once you picked her up on your antenna,
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You'd never be free of her spell.
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Her lovers were many and varied,
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From the day she began her -- beguine.
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There were three famous ones whom she married,
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And who knows how many between.
[Chorus 1]
AEBE
Alma, tell us! All modern women are jealous.
AEC#F#mB7E
Which of your magical wands got you Gustav and Walter and Franz?
[Verse]
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The first one she married was Mahler,
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Whose buddies all knew him as Gustav.
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And each time he saw her he'd holler:
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"Ach, that is the fraulein I moost have!"
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Their marriage, however, was murduh
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He'd scream to the heavens above,
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"I'm writing Das Lied von der Erde,
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And she only wants to make love!"
[Chorus 2]
AEBE
Alma, tell us! All modern women are jealous
AEC#F#mB7E
You should have a statue in bronze for bagging Gustav & Walter & Franz
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While married to Gus, she met Gropius,
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And soon she was swinging with Walter.
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Gus died, and her tear drops were copious.
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She cried all the way to the altar.
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But he would work late at the Bauhaus,
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And only came home now and then
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She said, "What am I running, a chow house?
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It's time to change parters again."
[Chorus 3]
AEBE
Alma, tell us! All modern women are jealous
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Though you didn't even use Ponds,
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You got Gustav and Walter and Franz
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EA
While married to Walt she'd met Werfel,
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And he too was caught in her net.
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He married her, but he was careful,
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'cause Alma was no Bernadette.
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And that is the story of Alma,
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Who knew how to receive and to give
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The body that reached her embalma'
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Was one that had known how to live!
[Chorus 4]
AEBE
Alma, tell us! How can they help being jealous?
AEC#F#mB7
Ducks always envy the swans who get Gustav and Walter,
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You never did falter, with Gustav and Walter and Franz