Madeleine Peyroux is a jazz singer who was born in 1974 in Athens, Georgia, USA, and raised in New York City and Paris, France. She is noted for her vocal style, which is highly reminiscent of Billie Holiday. Madeleine also has qualities similar to Ella Fitzgerald. Though Peyroux may remind some listeners of Holiday, there are differences, and she has her own sense of phrasing and interpretation.
Peyroux started singing at the age of fifteen, when she discovered street musicians in the Latin Quarter in Paris.
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A Cdim7 G7F#7 I've got a lovesick tale to tell to you B7E7AE7 Though it ain't no fail of mine A Cdim7 It's about a gal named sue G7F#7 And a boy named lou B7E7 They were fightin' all the time C#7F#7 Sue came home one afternoon B7E7 And found an empty dining room
A Cdim7 Without a word G7F#7 A turtledove had flown B7E7 Sue began to moan AA7 "My sweetie went away D7A/D7 But he didn't say where Dm7A/Dm7 He didn't say when A7D7 He didn't say why B7E7* Without biddin' me goodbye B7E7* ACdimB7E7* Oh I'm blue as I can be
AA7 I know he loves another one D7A/D7 But he didn't say who Dm7A/Dm7 He didn't say when A7D7 He didn't say what B7E7* His momma has got B7E7* ADm7A That took my sweetie from me
C#7 I'm like a little lost sheep
And I can't sleep F#m7 But I keep tryin' to forget EFmF#m7B7E7Em7 My travelin' poppa, he left his momma all alone E7E7* I groan
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