Chicago (That Toddling Town)

Words & Music by Fred Fisher
Recorded by Frank Sinatra, 1957 (#84)

C     CM7 CM7/6  C   CM7  CM7/6      Dm7             G7  Dm7  G7
Chi - ca - go,  Chi - ca - go,  that tod - dl - in' town,

     Dm7   G7        Dm7   G7        C   
Chi - ca - go,  Chi - ca - go, I'll show you a - round.

C        C/B       A7        Edim   Bm7-5    Cdim
Bet your bot - tom dol - lar you'll lose the blues

         Dm7   G7        Dm7   G7
In Chi - ca - go,  Chi - ca - go 

    Dm7  Gdim Fdim  G7 Dm7  Gdim      Fdim  G7   C   Edim Dm7  
The town that Bil - ly Sun - day could not shut down.


C   CM7 CM7/6     C   CM7   CM7/6     Dm7          G7  Dm7  G7
On State Street, that great street, I just want to say

     Dm7  G7         E       E7         Am   A7
They do things they don't do on Broad - way; say,

 Dm           Dm+7      Dm7           Fdim
They have the time, the time of their life --

CM7/6      Em       Am7           Am7/G      
   I saw a man, he danced with his wife

         Dm7  G7        Dm7  G7 Dm7 G7   C
In Chi - ca - go, Chi - ca - go my home town.



 
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