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   WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING
 Original Sheet Music
    Lyrics by Chauncey Olcott & George Graff Jr.
Music by Ernest R. Ball (Info)
1912
FROM ORIGINAL SHEET MUSIC
8-Bar Intro
 
Verse 1
                   D                                                 
         THERE'S A TEAR IN YOUR EYE, AND I'M WON-DER-ING WHY,
                A7     D                       
                FOR IT NEV-ER SHOULD BE THERE AT ALL.
                A7                          D              B7
      WITH SUCH POW'R IN YOUR SMILE, SURE A STONE YOU'D BE-GUILE,
             B7          E7                        A7
             SO THERES'S NEV-ER A TEAR-DROP SHOULD FALL,
                C
      WHEN YOUR SWEET LILT-ING LAUGH-TER'S LIKE SOME FAIR-Y SONG,
              A7       D             D7            G
              AND YOUR EYES TWINK-LE BRIGHT AS CAN BE;
       G          E7                          A
       YOU SHOULD LAUGH ALL THE WHILE AND ALL OTH-ER TIMES SMILE,
                    E7                A  A7
                    AND NOW SMILE A SMILE FOR ME
 
Verse 2
 
                    D
           FOR YOUR SMILE IS A PART OF THE LOVE IN YOUR HEART,
                A7     D
                AND IT MAKES E-VEN SUN-SHINE MORE BRIGHT.
                 A7                         D               B7
         LIKE THE LIN-NETS SWEET SONG CROON-ING ALL THE DAY LONG,
                B7         E7                       A7
                COMES YOUR LAUGH-TER SO TEN-DER AND LIGHT.
                    D
            FOR THE SPRING-TIME OF LIFE IS THE SWEET-EST OF ALL,
                   A7       D            D7         G
                  THERE IS NE'ER A REAL CARE OR RE-GRET;
                E7                              A
      AND WHILE SPRING-TIME IS OURS THROUGH-OUT ALL OF YOUTH'S HOURS,

                     E7                   A    A7
                     LET US SMILE EACH CHANCE WE GET.
 

Chorus
 

             D                                 G              D
      WHEN I-RISH EYES ARE SMI-LING, SURE IT'S LIKE A MORN IN SPRING.
      G                     D          B7      E7               A7
      IN THE LILT OF I-RISH LAUGH-TER, YOU CAN HEAR THE AN-GELS SING.
          G                         D7      G                      D
     WHEN I-RISH HEARTS ARE HAP-PY, ALL THE WORLD SEEMS BRIGHT AND GAY,
                     G               D°       D   B7
                     AND WHEN I-RISH EYES ARE SMI-LING,
                      E7                   A7      D
                      SURE THEY STEAL YOUR HEART A-WAY.

 
 
 
 
 
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