Chords with lyrics
Lyrics by Joseph A. McCarthy
Covered and performed by Fiona Apple for “The Best Is Yet to Come - The Songs of
Cy Coleman” and at “Largo @ the Coronet” respectively.
Recorded also, amongst others by Frank Sinatra (1952), Sammy Davis, Jr. (1965),
Helen Humes (1981), Elvin Jones (1984)
Cm7Cm7 F7F7 Bbmaj7Bbmaj7 G9G9
I'm sentimental, so I walk in the rain
Cm7Cm7 F7b9F7b9 Dm7b5Dm7b5 G+G+7 Cm7Cm7
I've got some habits even I can't explain
Cm7b5Cm7b5 Dm7Dm7 Dbdim7Dbdim7
Could start for the corner, turn up in Spain
Cm7Cm7 F13F13 Dm7Dm7 G7b9G7b9
But why try to change me now
Cm7Cm7 F7F7 Bbmaj7Bbmaj7 G9G9
I sit and daydream, I've got daydreams galore
Cm7Cm7 F7b9F7b9 Dm7b5Dm7b5 G+G+7 Cm7Cm7
Cigarette ashes; there they go on the floor
Cm7b5Cm7b5 Dm7Dm7 Dbdim7Dbdim7
I'll go away weekends, leave my keys in the door
Cm7Cm7 F13F13 Dm7Dm7 G7b9G7b9
But why try to change me now
Gm7Gm7 F#m7F#m7 Fm7Fm7 Bb7Bb7 Eb6/9 C majorC+7 Fm7Fm7 Bb9Bb9
Why can't I be more conventional, People talk, and they stare So I try
Eb6/9 Am7Am7 Ab7Ab7
But that's not for me
Gm7Gm7 C7C7
Cause I can't see
Fmaj7Fmaj7 Dm7Dm7 Gm7Gm7 C7C7
My kind of crazy world
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Go passing me by
Cm7Cm7 F7F7 Bbmaj7Bbmaj7 G9G9
So let people wonder, let 'em laugh, let 'em frown
Cm7Cm7 F7b9F7b9 Dm7b5Dm7b5 G+G+7
You know I'll love you till the moon's upside down
Cm7Cm7 Ab9Ab9 Dm7Dm7 Dbdim7Dbdim7
Don't you remember I was always your clown
Cm7Cm7 F13F13 Bb6Bb6
Why try to change me now