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    This document contains the lyrics and sheet music for the song 'It's Only a Paper Moon'. The song was arranged by Kirby Shaw and transposed by Mariko Sato. It describes a paper moon sailing over a cardboard sea, emphasizing that without love, life is hollow.

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    Its Only A Paper Moon in D

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    This document contains the lyrics and sheet music for the song 'It's Only a Paper Moon'. The song was arranged by Kirby Shaw and transposed by Mariko Sato. It describes a paper moon sailing over a cardboard sea, emphasizing that without love, life is hollow.

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    This document contains the lyrics and sheet music for the song 'It's Only a Paper Moon'. The song was arranged by Kirby Shaw and transposed by Mariko Sato. It describes a paper moon sailing over a cardboard sea, emphasizing that without love, life is hollow.

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    Its Only A Paper Moon in D

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    Ahn
    This document contains the lyrics and sheet music for the song 'It's Only a Paper Moon'. The song was arranged by Kirby Shaw and transposed by Mariko Sato. It describes a paper moon sailing over a cardboard sea, emphasizing that without love, life is hollow.

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    The song is about love and how without love, life seems empty and meaningless. It uses metaphors of a paper moon and cardboard sea to describe the singer's love.

    The song is about how without the singer's lover, everything seems hollow and fake, like a paper moon sailing over a cardboard sea. It describes life as empty parades and melodies in penny arcades.

    A main metaphor used is describing the singer's love as a paper moon sailing over a cardboard sea. Other metaphors include a canvas sky hanging over a muslin tree.

    It's Only a Paper Moon

    Arranged by Kirby Shaw


    Transposed by Mariko Sato



    Moon, moon,



    pa - per moon,



    moon, moon,



    pa - per moon,



    be lieve in me.

    16



    Say, it's on - ly

    pa - per moon,




    sail- ling o - ver a card - board sea,

    11



    moon, moon,
    pa - per moon,
    be bop!

    Lyrics by Billy Rose and E.Y. Harburg


    Music by Harold Arlen

    but it would - n't be make


    be ;ieve




    Yes, it's on - ly a
    can
    vas
    sky,

    if you



    hang- ing o- ver a







    mus - lin
    tree,
    but it would - n't be make be lieve
    if you
    be lieve - in me.

    25



    With - out
    your
    love,
    it's a hon - ky tonk
    pa - rade,

    21

    with - out
    your
    love,

    29



    pen - ny arcade.






    33


    it's a mel- o - dy played
    in a



    It's a Bar - num and Bai
    world,
    - ley



    just asphon - y as



    it can

    37



    but it would - n't be


    be,

    Bop bop
    ba dow! Say, it's on - ly a pa






    41



    45

    49


    sail- ling o - ver
    a card



    be- lieve
    if you
    be lieve in me.

    3

    of
    I wan - na say that it's on - ly apiece






    - per
    moon,

    but it would - n't be make

    board sea,




    make be lieve
    if you
    be lieve
    in me.

    can - vas sky,


    just
    o - ver a

    hang
    - in'

    53

    mus - lin tree, but don't - cha know it



    57


    With out


    would - n't be make

    your

    love,

    be lieve

    if

    you be - lieve in me.

    with -


    a mel- o - dy played
    in a pen - ny ar- cade.
    it's




    62



    out
    your love,
    s
    your
    love,

    66




    It's
    a
    Bar - num and Bai - ley world,
    just
    as phon - y as

    3
    3

    3
    3







    pa - rade,
    your love, it's a hon ky



    it
    can

    5
    73

    be,

    78


    No more


    but it would - n't be make be lieve
    if you



    pa - per moon,



    No more

    be lieve


    Pa - per
    moon.


    in me.



    card - board sea,


    real- ly be lieve
    in me

    83


    if

    you


    Pa - per moon.

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