If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow

Words & Music by Robert D. Emmerich & Ruth Poll
Recorded by Nat King Cole, 1944


  Em7/9  Em7  Em7/9 Em7  A7/6   A7 Cdim  A7  D9         Bm7
If yes - ter - day could  on  - ly  be   to - mor - row,

  Em7/9  Em7 Em7/9 Em7  A7/6   A7  Cdim  A7  Dalt
And I   knew then  the things that  I   know now,

        Em    Em7 G/B      F#7
There'd be so much to re - mem - ber, 

    D          A7 F#m   B7
And noth - ing to re - gret.

   E7    Bm7-5  Cdim E   E7  Cdim   A7
If I could do it all o - ver some - how.



 Em7/9 Em7 Em7/9 Em7  A7/6  A7 Cdim  A7  D9         Bm7
I on - ly   wish that  I   had held you clos - er;

Em7/9 Em7  A7/6 A7 Em7/9  Em7  A7/6 A7   D  DM7  B7
 Now  you  seem a  mill - ion miles a - way

   GM7   G6   Em7/9 Em7 A7/6  A7 Em7/9 Em7 F#m7 C  B7
If yes - ter - day could on - ly  be   to - mor - row,

        Em7/9 Em7  A7/6   A7        Em7/9   A7     A7+5   D
And the clock had stopped just be - fore it reached to - day.


(Instrumental interlude: 1st two lines of part two)

GM7   G6   Em7/9 Em7 A7/6  A7 Em7/9 Em7 F#m7 C  B7
If yes - ter - day could on - ly  be   to - mor - row,

        Em7/9 Em7  A7/6   A7        Em7/9   A7     A7+5   D
And the clock had stopped just be - fore it reached to - day.

This song was more recently recorded by Tony Bennett for the movie "Devine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood," 2002.

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