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            Artist: Elvis Presley
Song:   Wooden Heart
Album:  G.I. Blues [OST] (1960)
URL:    --.-/watch?ds49a05ZgyoZvhgI;
        -en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Blues_%28album%29
Tempo:  3/4
Tuning: Standard

Capo 1

Chords:
A7      X02020
D       XX0232
D/G     XX0003  (or G     320003)
Em7     020000
Em      022000
D#      XX0003
Bm      224432
N/C     No Chord


(Sound of wind-up gramophone band breaking)
Elvis:     “Was los?”
Musician: (Showing broken gramophone band) “Kaput!”
Elvis:    “You know this tune?”
Elvis:    “You think that you can play it on yer squeezebox?”
Musician: “Oh, ya!”
Elvis:    “What say we give it a whirl?”
Musician: “Lets’ how-you-say, ‘Give it a whirl’”
Elvis:    “I’ll try anything, once!”

A Puppet show ensues with Elvis singing ‘Wooden Heart’, to a single blonde female puppet.   


INTRO:(Squeeze-box over)
|A7       D|A7  D  D/G   D|


VERSE 1:
N/C       D           Em7       
Can't you see, I love you,
A7           D        D/G      D
Please don't break my heart in two.
           D/G     D                                  
That's not hard to do,
         Em7           A7    D  
'Cause I don't have a wooden heart.


VERSE 2:
Em7 A7 D       Em7
And if you say “Goodbye”,
A7     D           D/G   D
Then I know that I would cry.
      D/G     D
Maybe I would die,
       Em7            A      D  D/G  D
'Cause I don't have a wooden heart.


BRIDGE 1:
           Em      A7        D    D/G   D  
There's no strings upon this love of mine,
       D#     Bm           A7  
It was always you from the start.


VERSE 3:
Em7 A7   D              Em7
Treat me nice, treat me good,
A7            D   D/G    D
Treat me like you really should.
       D       D/G       D
'Cause I'm not made of wood,
      Em7           A7    D  D/G  D
And I don't have a wooden heart.


CHORUS 2:
Em7 A7 D            Em7
Muss i denn, muss i denn,
A7      D    D/G   D
Zum Stadtele hinaus.
         D/G   D
Stadtele hinaus,
        Em7         A       D    D/G  D
Und du, mein schat, bleibst hier?


CHORUS 3:
Em7 A7 D            Em7
Muss i denn, muss i denn,
A7  D        D/G  D
Zum Stadtele hinaus.
         D/G   D
Stadtele hinaus,
        Em7         A7      D    D/G  D
Und du, mein schat, bleibst hier?


BRIDGE 2:
           Em      A7        D    D/G   D  
There's no strings upon this love of mine,
       D#     Bm           A7  
It was always you from the start.


VERSE 4:
Em7 A7  D            Em7
Sei mir gut, Sei mir gut,
A7       D          D/G  D
Sei mir, wie du wirklich sollst.
       D/G      D
Wie du wirklich sollst,
         Em7          A7     D  D/G  D
'Cause I don't have a wooden heart.


CODA:(To the sound of the puppet’s father, tapping Elvis’ head and shoulders down and out)
D    (Orchestration fades)
Elvis: “Oh-oww, Oh-oww”

(The Puppet Theatre Curtain falls) 


[End]


Notes.
1.  Apologies, if I misheard something?  Feel free to simplify and adapt, as necessary.
2.  This movie has great memories for me, of long-lost family members and young friends.  
As it was the only Elvis movie that treated him, albeit within a fictional script, 
as part of his ‘own story’.  Not the unbelievable fictions of Hollywood and tinsel-town.
3. Google translate's and my bad 'best guess' at the German lyrics.  I look forward to corrections.

"Because I must, because I must,
Leave this city, leave this city.
And you, my treasure, remain here?

There's no strings upon this love of mine,
It was always you from the start.

Be good to me, Be good to me,
Be (good to) me, how you really should.
What you really should,
'Cause I don’t have a wooden heart!"
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