Tonart: Eb major
Verse 1
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Em
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F#m
That sweet expression,
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Em
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A
the smile you gave me
Am
It's easy to remember,
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Ebdim
D
G
or is it?
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B
It's March, of 1963
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Am
In mid- morning, New Jersey
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Two musicians drive through the snow bound,
suburban landscape
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F
On their way to a recording session
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Verse 2
A
an intensely dedicated musical explorer
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Has, of late, been studying
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the way singers breathe
Em
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A
And hopes he would hear Frank
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Sinatra on the radio
A
so he can consider one more
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D
no tion before the session
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Gm
an experienced song stylist
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D
C
Wonders whether he will ever hear his own
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B
Em
voice over the airways
A
D
The two men met only last week and have
only played a few pieces together
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Bb
The singer sitting in informally
Verse 3
Am
The singer is a little concerned
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that the band was gonna break
Em
Into some of the wild stuff
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he's heard them play
But the band leader,
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D
the gentle and positive man
G
Will be going for something altogether
different on this occasion
C
Gm
Something wholly sympathetic to
C
F
the sound the singer has
Verse 4
Bb
F
E
The two were joking and smoking and
Edim
Talking about the songs
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A
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They carry no chats,
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A
D
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and have made no formal musical arrangements
Or even had a real rehearsal
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Everyone at the session will know
Each man having performed them,
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in a hundred different countries
B
No one at the session will need to
Em
A
be told what to do or what to play
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Dm
The band is so well acquainted that
Verse 5
Am
any move that need to be established
Ebdim
G
Will come naturally
B
As the cats in the car talk
D
Over the car's radio comes Nat Cole
C
Gm
C
singing 'Lush Life'
Now he who doesn't know
all the words
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Out of fun the singer joins in any way
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B
And the two add one more tun
Em
A
C
e to the said list
Verse 6
C
When they got to the studio, they end
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up recording it in one take
In fact, they do everything
in one take
Gm
Almost the entire record except
D
'You are too beautiful'
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Where they do a second take because of
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Em
Asus4
a dropped drum stick
A
In three or four hours they are done
Am
C
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Laughter, handshakes a long drive
Verse 7
home
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Just a year or so later,
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John Coltrane will go onto the highest artistic peaks
Em
Leading the same band in the creation of
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'Crescent' and 'A love supreme'
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D
And among the most beloved and respected
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in the history of recorded music
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A
Although Johnny Hartman will go on to make
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D
some great Ballard records after this one
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Including some attempting to echo the magic
of the one he makes with strings
Verse 8
Em
Most go unnoticed upon their release
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Broad fame will elude Hartman
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D
until well after this death
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Em
But we remember them both
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