Don't Get Around Much Anymore

Words & Music by Bob Russel & Duke Ellington, 1942
Recorded by Mel Torme*, 1945


(G)                   C     Dm7  Cdim  C
Missed the Saturday dance;

           C/B          A   Bm7-5   Cdim    A7
Heard they crowded the floor.

         Fdim        D7         G7
Couldn't bear it without you--

(N.C.) Fdim   G        G7  C     Edim    Gdim     G7
Don't  get around much anymore.


(G)                    C     Dm7    Cdim    C
Thought I'd visit the club;

       C/B         A     Bm7-5  Cdim  A7
Got as far as the door,

            Fdim      D7          G7
They'd have asked me about you--

(N.C.) Fdim  G        G7    C    Fdim    C
Don't  get around much anymore.


Bridge:

F6         Bb9
Darling, I guess 

   CM7      C      C7
My mind's more at ease;

     D9      D7     B7
But nevertheless, 

Em   B+  Em7 Dm7   G
Why stir up mem-o-ries? 


(G)               C      Dm7   Cdim   C
Been invited on dates; 

           C/B            A      Bm7-5    Cdim    A7
Might have gone, but what for? 

        Fdim          D7           G7
Awfully different without you--

(N.C.) Fdim    G       G7   C   Fdim     C
Don't  get around much anymore,

(N.C.) Fdim    G       G7   C   Fdim     C      G       CM7
Don't  get around much anymore.


*This version is a synthesis of probably every recording of this song I've ever heard. It's almost unfair to credit it to any one singer, since the song has been recorded over 250 times, and popular versions were done by Tormé, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat "King" Cole, Tony Bennett, The Mills Brothers, Patti Page…even even in the 90s by Harry Connick Jr.


 
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