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Version 1[Intro] | C | A7 | Dm7 | G7 | G7 | [Verse 1] C A7 D7 Too many parties and too many pals G7 C Will break your heart someday A7 D7 Too many boyfriends and sociable salts G7 G C A7 Will drive your sweetheart away (parlando until outro) [Verse 2] D7 Gentlemen of the jury, the judge's speech began G7 The scene was a crowded courtroom C And the judge a sterned old man A7 This prisoner here before you: Is a social enemy D7 A lady of the evening and you know the penalty [Verse 3] G G7 Her eyes reflect the nightlife, her cheeks they're red with paint C But I knew her mother gentlemen, why her mother was a saint Am7 A7 D7 Now, I know that she's not like her and yet, she might have been G7 If it hadn't been for pettin' parties, cigarettes and gin [Verse 3] C We took the night life off the streets and brought into our own homes Cm C A7 While girls beat time with lipstick and the shreeks of saxophones D7 We opened up the underworld to the ones we loved so well G7 So tell me gentlemen is it right to send her to a cell? [Verse 4] C If she drinks while you taught her and if she smokes you showed her how A7 D7 So gentlemen do you think it's right to condemn her now? G7 And when you're in that jury room just remember there and then C That for every fallen woman, why there's a hundred fallen men [Verse 5] A7/G A7 And before you render a verdict on what this girl has done D7 Just remember there's a man to blame and that man might be your son G7 Now, gentlemen that's my story, my testimony stands C This girl is my own daughter and the case is in your hands [Outro] A7 D7 Those Broadway roses and prevalence sounds C D7 G C At too many parties and too many pals