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Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Words & Music by Oscar Hamerstein II & Jerome KernRecorded by Billie Holiday, 1937*
Intro Verse:
D D7 E7 AM7 D
Oh, listen, sister, I love my Mister man;
DM7 D D+
I can't tell yo' why
G Gm D
Dere ain't no reason why I should love dat man
A7 AM7 A7 D
It must be sumpin' dat de angels done plan
D D7 E7 AM7 D
De chimhley's smokin', de roof is leakin' in,
DM7 D7
But he don't seem to care;
G Gm D
He can be happy with jes' a sip of gin.
A7 AM7 A7 D
I even loves him when his kisses got gin.
Melody:
D Bm7 Em7 F#m A7
Fish got to swim and birds got to fly,
D Bm7 G Gm
I got to love one man till I die,
D Bm Bb7 A7 D GM7 G6
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
D Bm7 Em7 F#m A7
Tell me he's lazy, tell me he's slow,
D Bm7 G Gm
Tell me I'm crazy -- maybe, I know.
D Bm Bb7 A7 D G D G D
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
Bridge:
G6 Fdim D E7
When he goes away, dat's a rainy day,
D Fdim A7 G/B A7 G6 A7
And when he comes back, dat day is fine, the sun will shine.
D Bm Em7 A7
He can come home as late as can be;
D Bm G Gm
Home without him ain't no home to me
D Bm Bb7 A7 D E7 Gdim D
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
This arrangement and transcription courtesy of Adolfo Aladro. I have transposed it from his original Eb version to D. I have somewhat arbritrarily assigned recording credit to Billie Holliday, but I don't know whose version Aladro actually used as the basis for his arrangement. The exact date for Holiday's recording may be 1937 or 1938.