Put The Blame On Mame Tab por Rita Hayworth (from

# This is a highly-simplified version which I have lowered in key to suit my voice   # (and to simplify the chords), but the chords used in the movie "Gilda" are:

C#m      F#m      G#

# Here is how I like to play it (so that it's in my vocal range):

      Gm             Cm
 When Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked the lantern 
 D          Gm
 In Chicago town
      Gm                   Cm
 They say that started the fire
      D              D or D7
 That burned Chicago down
 Cm                    Gm
 That's the story that went around
     Gm                  D
 But here's the real low-down
Gm       D        Gm    D
 Put the blame on Mame, boys
Gm       D        Gm
 Put the blame on Mame
 Cm                       Gm
 Mame kissed a buyer from out of town
 Gm                  Gm   D
 That kiss burned Chicago down, so you can 
Gm       D        Gm    D
 Put the blame on Mame, boys
Gm       D        Gm
 Put the blame on Mame

# (and so on with the rest of the verses...this version is bare-bones and it could  # really be punched up with some simple Tab melodies and jazz chords or something)

 Remember the blizzard, back in Manhattan
 In eighteen-eighty-six
 They say that traffic was tied up
 And folks were in a fix
 That's the story that went around
 But here's the real low-down
 Put the blame on Mame, boys
 Put the blame on Mame
 Mame gave a chump such an ice-cold "No"
 For seven days they shovelled snow
 So you can put the blame on Mame, boys
 Put the blame on Mame

 When they had the earthquake in San Francisco
 Back in nineteen-six
 They said that Mother Nature
 Was up to her old tricks
 That's the story that went around
 But here's the real low-down
 Put the blame on Mame, boys
 Put the blame on Mame
 One night she started to shim and shake
 That brought on the Frisco quake
 So you can put the blame on Mame, boys
 Put the blame on Mame

 They once had a shootin' up in the Klondike
 When they got Dan McGrew
 Folks were putting the blame on
 The lady known as Lou
 That's the story that went around
 But here's the real low-down
 Put the blame on Mame, boys
 Put the blame on Mame
 Mame did a dance called the hoochy-coo
 That's the thing that slew McGrew
 So you can put the blame on Mame, boys
 Put the blame on Mame