Words & Music by Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
Recorded by Nat "King" Cole, 1950 (#1) (Academy award winner, 1950)
(G7+) C F C
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa men have named you;
C/B Am7 Am7/G Dm7 G7
You're so like the lady with the mystic smile.
Dm Dm7 G7sus4 G7
Is it only 'cause you're lonely men have blamed you
G G/A G/B G C
For the Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile?
C6 C C6 C F C
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Li-sa,
C7 F
Or is this the way you hide a broken heart?
Fm C
Many dreams have been left upon your doorstep;
G7 G7+ C
They just lie there, and they die there.
C7 F Fm C
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa,
Dm7 G7 Dm7 G7 C
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art.
Fm G7 Fm C
Mona Lisa, Mona Li-sa.
C6 C C6 C F C
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Li-sa,
C7 F
Or is this the way you hide a broken heart?
Fm C
Many dreams have been left upon your doorstep;
G7 G7+ C
They just lie there, and they die there.
C7 F Fm C
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa,
Dm7 G7 Dm7 G7 C
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art.
Fm G7 Fm-C
Mona Lisa, Mona Li-sa.
