Don't Be That Way

Words & Music by Mitchell Parish & Edgar Sampson
Recorded by The Andrews Sisters, 1953*


E7-9  A6   E7   Bm7-5  A6
Don't cry, 

   F#m     D9        Cdim      A   D9  Cdim   A
Oh honey please don't be that way;

E7-9       E7 A6     Bm7-5  A6
Clouds in the sky 

       F#m    D9       E7       A     D9  A
Should never make you feel that way.


E7-9  A6   E7   Bm7-5  A6
The rain 

F#m            D9       Cdim    A   D9  Cdim   A
Will bring the vi - o - lets of May;

E7-9      E7 A6   E7   Bm7-5  A6
Tears are in vain, 

   F#m    D9          E7       A     D9  A
So honey please don't be that way.


Bridge:

A7  G#7  Cdim(IV) G#7 C#7 Gdim   G7
As long    as     we  see  it  through,

F#7    Gdim F#7 C#m7-5  B7  Fdim E7
You'll have me   and   I'll have you.


E7-9     A6   E7   Bm7-5  A6
Sweet - heart, 

     F#m       D9      Cdim      A   D9  Cdim   A
To - mor - row is an - oth - er day;

E7-9         E7 A6   E7   Bm7-5  A6
Don't break my heart, 

   F#m      D9         E7       A     D9  A
Oh honey, please don't be that way,

*Recorded in the mid 1930s by both Benny Goodman and Chick Webb, this was a classic swing tune with an energetic tempo. The Andrews Sisters made much more of a ballad out of it.

The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.