How About You?

Words & Music by Ralph Freed & Burton Lane
Recorded by Tommy Dorsey, 1942 (#8)
From the 1941 movie "Babes On Broadway"*


G Bm7-5      G/B    Edim Am7          D9      D7
I  like New York in June -- how about you?

G Bm7-5  G/B      Edim   Bm7-5      Fdim    Bb9
I like a Gershwin tune -- how about you?

A9 C#m7-5   Gdim  Bbm7-5  G        G/F#      E7          
I   love  a fire - side     when a storm is due;

Gdim      Bm7-5       C#m7-5         F#7         
I   like potato chips, moonlight and motor trips --

Bm7-5   B9   Am7   D9
How   about you?


G  Bm7-5   G/B      Edim Am7              D9      D7
I'm mad  about good books -- can't get my fill.

Dm           Dm7        Dm7-5  CM7           F9
And Franklin Roosevelt's looks    give me a thrill.

D7        G        G/B         
Holding hands in a movie show

Gdim         Edim           C          Cm7
When all the lights are low may not be new, 



First Time:

B7 G/B Edim       Am7   D9   G  Edim Am7 Cdim 
But I  like it -- how about you?



Last time:

B7 G/B Edim       Am7   D9  G/BEdim     Am7  Cdim  G
But I like it -- how about,  I like it, how about you?

*Performed in the film by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, the song was nominated for -- and would have been a shoe-in for -- an Academy Award except for one other contender that year: it was up against "White Christmas." One can only guess what kind of ribbing lyricist Freed must have taken for the suggestion that Franklin Roosevelt's looks could have given anybody a thrill.

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.