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Five Foot Two

• C

Five Foot Two (Eyes of Blue)
Milton Ager
Written in 1925 (possibly earlier) and first recorded by Art Landry
Standard tuning

The version everyone knows - 

INTRO: |C   |E7  |A7  |A7  |D7  |G7  |C   |


C              E7
Five foot two, eyes of blue,
A7                
But oh what those fives could do, 
    D7      G7      C  C#dim7 Dm G7
Has anybody seen my girl?
C               E7
Turned up nose, turned down hose,
A7                
flapper? Yes sir, one of those,
    D7      G7      C
Has anybody seen my girl?

           E7 
Now if you run into a five foot two
A7
Covered in fur, 
D7
diamond rings and all those things,
G7
bet your life it isn't her

Gaug
but...
C               E7
Could she love? could she woo?
A7
Could she, could she, could she coo?
    D7      G7                C
Has anybody seen that girl of mine?

repeat as necessary and end on C7


The now more obscure version with the nearly forgotten verses.

Verse 1 

C            Gm  A7  Gm  A7  Gm  A7
I just saw a maniac, maniac, maniac,
D7        G7          C  C#dim Dm G7
Wild, and tearing his hair,
C              Gm      A7    Gm      A7    Gm      A7
Jumpin' like a jumping jack, jumping jack, jumping jack,
D7         G7           C
Child, you shoulda been there,
E7                                        A7
He laughed so loud I thought that I would cave in,
D7                            G7
When I heard that silly daffy-dilly ravin':

Chorus

C              E7
Five foot two, eyes of blue,
A7                
But oh what those fives could do, 
    D7      G7      C  C#dim7 Dm G7
Has anybody seen my girl?
C               E7
Turned up nose, turned down hose,
A7                
flapper? Yes sir, one of those,
    D7      G7      C
Has anybody seen my girl?

           E7 
Now if you run into a five foot two
A7
Covered in fur, 
D7
diamond rings and all those things,
G7
bet your life it isn't her

Gaug
but...
C               E7
Could she love? could she woo?
A7
Could she, could she, could she coo?
    D7      G7                C
Has anybody seen that girl of mine?


Verse 2

C               Gm  A7   Gm  A7   Gm  A7
Love made him a lunatic, lunatic, lunatic
D7      G7           C  C#dim Dm G7
Gee, he hollered and cried
C             Gm   A7     Gm   A7     Gm   A7
Like a monkey on a stick, on a stick, on a stick
D7     G7        C
He was fit to be tied
E7                               A7
When we asked him for his wife's description
D7                            G7
He just answered all of us with this conniption:

Chorus

C              E7
Five foot two, eyes of blue,
A7                
But oh what those fives could do, 
    D7      G7      C  C#dim7 Dm G7
Has anybody seen my girl?
C               E7
Turned up nose, turned down hose,
A7                
flapper? Yes sir, one of those,
    D7      G7      C
Has anybody seen my girl?

           E7 
Now if you run into a five foot two
A7
Covered in fur, 
D7
diamond rings and all those things,
G7
bet your life it isn't her

Gaug
but...
C               E7
Could she love? could she woo?
A7
Could she, could she, could she coo?
    D7      G7                C
Has anybody seen that girl of mine?

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