Five Foot Two (Eyes of Blue)
Milton Ager
Written in 1925 (possibly earlier) and first recorded by Art Landry
Standard tuning
The version everyone knows -
INTRO: |C |E7 |A7 |A7 |D7 |G7 |C |
C E7
Five foot two, eyes of blue,
A7
But oh what those fives could do,
D7 G7 C C#dim7 Dm G7
Has anybody seen my girl?
C E7
Turned up nose, turned down hose,
A7
flapper? Yes sir, one of those,
D7 G7 C
Has anybody seen my girl?
E7
Now if you run into a five foot two
A7
Covered in fur,
D7
diamond rings and all those things,
G7
bet your life it isn't her
Gaug
but...
C E7
Could she love? could she woo?
A7
Could she, could she, could she coo?
D7 G7 C
Has anybody seen that girl of mine?
repeat as necessary and end on C7
The now more obscure version with the nearly forgotten verses.
Verse 1
C Gm A7 Gm A7 Gm A7
I just saw a maniac, maniac, maniac,
D7 G7 C C#dim Dm G7
Wild, and tearing his hair,
C Gm A7 Gm A7 Gm A7
Jumpin' like a jumping jack, jumping jack, jumping jack,
D7 G7 C
Child, you shoulda been there,
E7 A7
He laughed so loud I thought that I would cave in,
D7 G7
When I heard that silly daffy-dilly ravin':
Chorus
C E7
Five foot two, eyes of blue,
A7
But oh what those fives could do,
D7 G7 C C#dim7 Dm G7
Has anybody seen my girl?
C E7
Turned up nose, turned down hose,
A7
flapper? Yes sir, one of those,
D7 G7 C
Has anybody seen my girl?
E7
Now if you run into a five foot two
A7
Covered in fur,
D7
diamond rings and all those things,
G7
bet your life it isn't her
Gaug
but...
C E7
Could she love? could she woo?
A7
Could she, could she, could she coo?
D7 G7 C
Has anybody seen that girl of mine?
Verse 2
C Gm A7 Gm A7 Gm A7
Love made him a lunatic, lunatic, lunatic
D7 G7 C C#dim Dm G7
Gee, he hollered and cried
C Gm A7 Gm A7 Gm A7
Like a monkey on a stick, on a stick, on a stick
D7 G7 C
He was fit to be tied
E7 A7
When we asked him for his wife's description
D7 G7
He just answered all of us with this conniption:
Chorus
C E7
Five foot two, eyes of blue,
A7
But oh what those fives could do,
D7 G7 C C#dim7 Dm G7
Has anybody seen my girl?
C E7
Turned up nose, turned down hose,
A7
flapper? Yes sir, one of those,
D7 G7 C
Has anybody seen my girl?
E7
Now if you run into a five foot two
A7
Covered in fur,
D7
diamond rings and all those things,
G7
bet your life it isn't her
Gaug
but...
C E7
Could she love? could she woo?
A7
Could she, could she, could she coo?
D7 G7 C
Has anybody seen that girl of mine?