A	A6	Am7	Amaj7	Bm7	Bm7-5	Cdim	D	D7	D9
Dm6	E7	E7/6 Unknown	Edim	F#7	F#m	F#m7	Fdim	G	G/F#

Words & Music by Leo Robin & Ralph Rainger
Recorded by The Shep Fields Orchestra, Bob Hope vocal, 1937
From the 1938 film "Big Broadcast of 1938" (Academy Award winner)


E7/6   Fdim        A6     F#m
Thanks     for the memory

   A               Edim   E7            Cdim
Of candlelight and wine, castles on the Rhine

     E7           F#m7          Bm7-5          E7
The Parthenon and moments on the Hudson River Line

    D9     Dm6 Cdim  E7
How lovely      it  was!


E7/6   Fdim        A6     F#m
Thanks     for the memory

   A          Edim    E7           Cdim
Of rainy afternoons, swingy Harlem tunes

    E7              F#m7             Bm7-5             E7
And motor trips and burning lips and burning toast and prunes

      E7   D9      A
How lovely    it  was!


A          Amaj7          D9      E7
Many's the time that we feasted

     A         Amaj7         D9      E7
And many's the time that we fasted

     G           Bm7            Am7       D7
Oh, well, it was swell while it lasted

   G        G/F#    E7
We did have fun and no harm done



    E7/6   Fdim          A6     F#m
And thanks      for the memory

    A              Edim    E7            Cdim
Of sunburns at the shore, nights in Singapore

     E7               F#m7            Bm7-5          E7
You might have been a headache but you never were a bore

    D9     Dm6 Cdim  E7
So thank you    so  much.


E7/6   Fdim         A6     F#m
Thanks      for the memory

   A           Edim     E7          Cdim
Of sentimental verse, nothing in my purse

     E7                F#m7             Bm7-5          E7
And chuckles when the preacher said "For better or for worse"

D9         Dm6 Cdim  E7
How lovely       it  was


E7/6   Fdim        A6     F#m
Thanks     for the memory

    A            Edim   E7           Cdim
Of lingerie with lace, Pilsner by the case

    E7              F#m7               Bm7-5         E7
And how I jumped the day you trumped my one-and-only ace

    D9     E7       A
How lovely    it   was!


A           Amaj7      D9       E7
We said goodbye with a highball

     A        Amaj7        D9       E7
Then I got as "high" as a steeple

G             Bm7        Am7     D7
But we were intelligent people

G            G/F#      E7
No tears, no fuss, Hooray! For us


    E7/6   Fdim        A6     F#m
So, thanks     for the memory

    A              Edim   E7            Cdim
And strictly entre-nous, darling how are you?

    E7              F#m7              Bm7-5            E7
And how are all the little dreams that never did come true?

D              Fdim          A              F#7
Aw'flly glad I met you, cheerio, and toodle-oo

     D9       E7  A
And thank you so much.



*Introduced in the film "Big Broadcast Of 1938" by Bob Hope and Shirley 
Ross, this song was adopted by Hope and used as his theme song until the 
end of his career. The lyrics shown reflect that earliest version; Hope 
routinely adapted them at the end of his television shows, so some may 
look unfamiliar now.