Everything Happens To Me chords by Chet Baker

Chords with lyrics

Intro. Verse

B minorBm         G9G9       B minorBm       G7G7
Black cats creep across my path until I'm almost mad
  B minorBm     F#F#     G9G9
I must have roused the devil's wrath
    Bb7Bb7      A augmentedA
'Cause all my luck is bad

Melody

 Em9Em9       A9A9       F#m7F#m7        GdimGdim
I make a date for golf, and you can bet your life it rains
 E minor 7Em7       A augmentedA       Am6Am6        B7B7
I try to give a party, and the guy upstairs complains
  E minor 7Em7       C# minorC#m       F#7F#7        Bm7Bm7
I guess I'll go thru life just catching colds and missing trains
E minor 7Em7     A7A7    D6D6
Ev'rything happens to me
  Em9Em9     A9A9       F#m7F#m7      GdimGdim
I never miss a thing I've had the measles and the mumps
   E minor 7Em7    A augmentedA        Am6Am6       B7B7
And ev'rytime I play an ace, my partner always trumps
  E minor 7Em7      C#m5-/7     F#7F#7       Bm7Bm7
I guess I'm just a fool who never looks before he jumps
E minor 7Em7    A7A7     D MajorD
Ev'rything happens to me

Bridge

  Am7Am7          D7D7          G9G9      G6G6
At first my heart thought you could break this jinx for me
   Am7Am7         D7D7       G9G9   G6G6
That love would turn the trick to end despair
   G#m7G#m7       C#7C#7         F#F#      F#6F#6
But now I just can't fool this head that thinks for me
    Bm7Bm7   F#F#   Bm5-/7  E7E7   E minor 7Em7    A7A7
I've mortgaged all my castles in the air
   Em9Em9       A9A9         F#m7F#m7       GdimGdim
I've telegraphed and phoned, and sent an airmail special, too
   E minor 7Em7       A augmentedA         Am6Am6      B7B7
Your answer was "Good bye" and there was even postage due
 E minor 7Em7        C#m5-/7      F#7F#7      Bm7Bm7
I fell in love just once, and then it had to be with you
E minor 7Em7     A7A7     D MajorD  D7M B7B7
Ev'rything happens to me
E minor 7Em7     A7A7     D MajorD
Ev'rything happens to me