[Verso 1]

C                             F 
Right from the start let's get one thing straight 
        C                            F 
When it comes to the heart you can't legislate 
Am                                     G 
Funny the things a fellow will remember sometimes 
C                            F 
Like the scene from the movie Citizen Kane 
C                        F 
One short moment with me remains 
Am                                      G 
Funny the things a fellow will remember sometimes 
C                       F 
When Bernstein says now you take me 
C                    F 
Stuck in my mind one memory 
Am                                  G 
I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry 
C                        F 
As we pulled out another ferry pulled in 
C                         F 
A second between them was all it could have been 
Am                                  G 
And on it was a girl waiting to get off 
C                     G 
A white dress is what she had on 
C                F 
One second later she was gone 
Am                                         G 
She never saw me at all,she carried a white parasol 
C                    F 
That was in eighteen ninety six 
C                        F 
And I bet a month hasn't gone by since 
       Am                                        G 
That I haven't thought of that girl on the Jersey ferry 


Instrumental: C F C F Am G   (x4) 



[Verso 2]

C                 F 
Now it's nineteen forty one 
     C              F 
Nigh half a century been and gone 
      Am                                           G 
And I still remember that girl with the white dress on 
  C                   F 
A fleeting glimpse of chances missed 
C          F 
Destiny or fates cruel twist 
Am 
She'd never even know that I exist, 
G 
How about that 
C                          F 
Time is the ticket and the years the toll 
C                                 F 
Did I mention she carried a white parasol 
Am                                      G 
Funny the things a fellow will remember sometimes 


Outro: C F C F Am G   (x8)