When I Worked at the Grand Hotel capo III? copyright Wanda C. Metcalf 09/2014 C G C G C G D WIWGH the mountain views were really swell G C G D G The starry skies as twilight fell WIWGH Em D G D WIWGH the waitstaff lived in garrets C G D G This kept us all out of the rain but had no other merits Em D G D WIWGH the desk clerks and musicians C G D G Were all ensconced one floor below in homier conditions C G C G C G D WIWGH the mountain views were really swell G C G D G The starry skies as twilight fell WIWGH Em D G D At the Grand Hotel we worked breakfast lunch and dinner C G D G They fed us on potatoes so none of us got thinner Em D G D WIWGH we ate what we were given C G D G If a guest returned a steak we devoured it in the kitchen C G C G C G D WIWGH the mountain views were really swell G C G D G The starry skies as twilight fell WIWGH Em D G D WIWGH the kitchen crew were black C G D G They mostly just kept to themselves and lived in sheds out back Em D G D Why is the kitchen crew out back a desk person inquired C G D G that's what they're used to he was told then promptly he was fired C G C G C G D Two waiters got a special treat to mingle with the state's elite G C G D G And then to make their day complete a speech by Richard Nixon (Yankee Doodle) G D G D When I left the Grand Hotel I had a deeper knowledge G C D G Of why a girl should study hard so she could finish college C G The GH went belly up in the following recession C G D G Somebody burnt it to the ground, but the cops got no confession G D G D And that's the ending of my song, no moral to this story G C D G Just there are many levels to a grand old hotel's glory