Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)
Looking Glass,  Elliot Lurie

Midi 1(A110)   Midi 2(C110)   Midi 3(E135)
Midi 4(A110)   Midi 5(A130)   Midi 6(C110)
Midi 7(E122)   Midi 8(E126)
Midi 9(E122)*-harp

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Looking Glass

 

 

 

 

Lead in:  5 measures...

 RRR  4    -4     5 R-4 4    -4  5   4   3   4     -4  r 3b 3   4
|   There's a | port on a | western bay and it | serves  a hundred |
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| ships a day. Lonely | sailors pass the | time away and | talk about their homes. |

->  R     4   -4     5  R-4   4     -4 5    4   3   4      -4  r 3b 3  4
|  And there's a | girl, in this | harbor town and she | works,  a layin' |
    -4 5    4     4   -4      5  5 R  -4   4   -4  5   5    r 4
| whiskey down. They say | "Brandy, fetch an | other round". She |
    -4     5    4   4  4      4  r 4    5  5   6
| serves them whiskey and | wine. The sailors say |

     6 -6 r  6    5    6    -6     6  -6    7   -6   6    -6  -6--->
| "Brandy, you're a fine | girl, what a | good wife you would be. |
->  6    5      6    5     6   6  -6    6   5    -4   -4 4  r  RRRR
| Yeah your | eyes could steal a sai | lor from the | se a." |      |

    5 5  R  -4  4     -4 5    4     3   4          -4 r 3b  3   4      -4   5   4     4 -4
| Brandy, wears a | braided chain made of finest | silver from the | north of Spain. An a |
    5 5 R -4 4     -4   5    4 r  4    -4   5    4  4   4----->R 4 -4     5  R -4 4
| locket, that | bears the name 'fa | man that Brandy loved. |   H ee | came,  on a |
    -4 5    4    3   4      -4 r 3b  3 4    -4 5 4    4  -4     5   5   5  R  -4   4
| summer's day bringing | gifts, ah from | far away. But he | made it clear, that he |
    -4  5    5  r  4    -4 5  4 4  4      4  r 4    5  5   6
| couldn't stay - no | harbor was his | home. The sailor said |

     6 -6 r  6    5   6---> -6     6 -6     7   -6   6    -6  -6---> 6   5
| "Brandy, you're a fine | girl. What a | good wife you would be, | but my |
    6    5  6 6   -6--> 6 5 -4    -4  4   r  RRRR
| life, my lover, my | lady is | the sea." |      |

    7   -6 -6   6        6    6   -6    6   5     6   6    6  6     6---> -6  
| Yeah Brandy used | t'watch his eyes when he | told his sailor's stor |  ry.
   6    -6      7   -6 -6 6      6   -6   5  r 5     6   5    6  6   6---> -6 r 6
| She could | feel the ocean | fall and rise, she | saw it's raging glo |  ry. But |
  -6  -6 -6 -6   -6---> 6    5     -4   4    5   6  5  4    -4 4
| he had always told | the truth, Lord he | was an honest | ma n. |
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| And Brandy does | her best to un | derstand. |

 RRR  4      5  R -4   4     -4    5     4     3  4     -4 r3b     3   4  
|    At | night, when the | bars close down, Brandy | walks on through a |
   -4 5    4   4 -4   5   5 R -4    4      -4 5  5   r 4      -4   5    4  4 4
| silent town. A nd loves a  man, who's | not around. She | still can hear him |
   4  r    4  5     5   6     6   -6 r  6  5   6---> -6     6 -6     7   -6    6    -6  -6--->
| say,  "Brandy, you're a | fine girl what a good | wife (WHAT A | GOOD WIFE) you would be. |
-> 6   5     6    5   6    6 -6--> 6  5  -4   -4 4  r  RRRR   RRRR
| But my | life, my love, my la | dy is the | se a". |      |      |

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