I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues

Words & Music by Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler
Recorded by Lena Horne, 1941


D F#m   Bm      Bm7-5      E7/9
I gotta right to sing the blues,

  Bm7-5 A7/6     A(V)     Bb7   Fdim  
I gotta right to feel low down;

  E7-9   Em7    Bm7-5   E7
I gotta right to hang around 

 D6    F#m      B7
Down around the river.

  Bm7-5  E7/9    Edim     E7/9      
A certain gal in this old town.

     Bm7-5    A7/6     Em7    A7/6
Keeps draggin' my poor heart around.

Edim A7  D  A7  D6 Gm  Edim  Fdim  D
All  I  see for me is   mis - er - y.


D F#m   Bm       Bm7-5    E7/9
I gotta right to sing the blues,

  Bm7-5 A7/6     A(V)     Bb7   Fdim  
I gotta right to moan and sigh,

  E7-9   E7    Bm7-5     E7
I gotta right to sit and cry

D6    F#m       Cdim  B7
Down around the riv - er.

  Bm7-5    E7/9 Edim E7/9      
I know the deep blue sea 

     Bm7-5   A7/6  Em7 A7/6
Will soon be call - in' me

   Em7     G+7      Bm7-5      A7/6
It must be love, say what you choose,

    Edim   A7   Cdim Gdim Cdim   D
I've gotta right to  sing  the blues.

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