Ain't We Got Fun?

Words & Music by Gus Kahn, Raymond B. Egan & Richard Whiting, 1921
Recorded by Doris Day, 1953
Sung with Danny Thomas in the movie "I'll See You In My Dreams"


D      Fdim    D   D     Fdim    D    A7    Em7    A7
Ev-'ry morn - ing, ev-'ry eve - ning, ain't we got fun?

A7       Em7   A7         G/B   A7   D    G   A7  D    D7
Not much mon - ey, oh but hon - ey, ain't we got fun? 

G   G/F#       Fdim(III) Fdim  D    Bm7        B7
The rent's un -  paid    dear,   we haven't a car; 

E   G/F#      G         Em7   G/B        A7
But an - y - way, dear, we'll stay as we are.



D      Fdim   D   D     Fdim    D   A7       Em7   A7
In the win - ter, in the sum - mer, don't we have fun? 

A7        Em7   A7         G/B    A7    D    G   A7   D    D7
Times are glum and getting glum - mer, still we have fun. 

G       G/F#   Fdim(III) Fdim      E         E6          G        A7
There's nothing   sur  -  er: the rich get rich and the poor get poorer.

D      Fdim    D    B7                   E7  Gdim A7  D   
In the mean - time, in be - tween time, ain't we  got fun?

Note: I've taken liberties with the wording of the beginning of the second verse -- but no more than the singers did. This wording has more in common with a much earlier Margaret Whiting recording.

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