If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)

Words & Music by Harry Creamer & James P. Johnson, 1926
Recorded by The Mills Brothers, 1964


A      F#m      D9                E7
I'm so blue, I don't know what to do,

A       F#m     D9               E7
All day long, I sit and dream of you

A  A9  A7   A7/9   F#m       
I did wrong when I let you go away,

    B7    Edim    E7      Bm7-5      E7
For now I dream about you night and day.

   Cdim  E7           D9     E7
I'm un - happy and dissatisfied,

    Edim    B7       Cdim            E7
But I'd be happy if I had you by my side.


           D6      D         E7        E9
If I could be with you, I'd love you strong,

  Cdim     A6      E7      C#m7-5     F#7
If I could be with you, I'd love you long,

  D           Bm7       E7 E7/6   E7 E7/6
I want you to know that I would - n't go,

   A A9  A   A6   F#m  F#m9 F#m   Bm  Bm7-5 E7
Until I told you, hon - ey, why I love you  so.

           D6      D       E7     E7/9
If I could be with you one hour tonight,

  Cdim    A6     E7     C#m7-5    F#7
If I was free to do the things I might,

     D          Cdim  E7     A       C#m7-5     F#7
I'm telling you true, I'd be an - y - thing but blue,

D9         E7       A
If I could be with you.


D6      D         E7        E9
If I could be with you, I'd love you strong,

  Cdim     A6      E7      C#m7-5     F#7
If I could be with you, I'd love you long,

  D           Bm7       E7 E7/6   E7 E7/6
I want you to know that I would - n't go,

   A A9  A   A6   F#m  F#m9 F#m   B7   F7  E7
Until I told you, hon - ey, why I love you  so.

           D6      D       E7     E7/9
If I could be with you one hour tonight,

  Cdim    A6     E7     C#m7-5    F#7
If I was free to do the things I might,

     D          Cdim  E7     A         C#7     F#7
I'm telling you true, I'd be an - y - thing but blue,

C#m7-5 D9 Cdim  E7 E7-9  A
  If   I  could be with you.



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