I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face

Words & Music by Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe
Recorded by Dean Martin, 1960

G     Am7  G7    C               C9   C  G/B  Am7  
I've grown ac - customed to her face, 

    Cdim    Dm7            G7   Dm7   G7
She almost makes my day begin,

     Edim     F              Em       Gdim                Dm7
I've grown accustomed to the tune she whistles night and noon,

     F           Em         Dm7       G
Her smiles, her frowns, her ups, her downs

   Edim     C           C9   C  G/B  Am7  
Are second nature to me now, 

     Cdim      Dm7               G7   Dm7   G7
Like breathing out and breathing in,

             F       Dm7      Cdim        B7      C     Em7     A
I was ser - ene - ly in - de - pen - dent and content before we met

Dm7    F       G7    Bm7-5     E7    Fdim    Fm 
Surely I could always  be that way again and yet,

     Fdim       D7                Fm
I've grown ac - cus - tomed to her looks, 

      C          Em7    Gdim        Dm7    Am7 D7/9 G7   C
Ac - cus - tomed to her voice, ac - cus - tomed to  her face.


G     Am7  G7    C               C9   C  G/B  Am7  
I've grown ac - customed to her face,  

   Cdim        Dm7            G7   Dm7   G7
She al - most makes the day begin,

     Edim     F              Em        Gdim           Dm7
I've gotten used to hear her say "Good Morning" every day,

     F        Em         Dm7        G
Her joys, her woes, her highs, her lows

   Edim     C           C9   C  G/B  Am7  
Are second nature to me now, 

     Cdim      Dm7               G7   Dm7   G7
Like breathing out and breathing in,

          F       Dm7      Cdim  B7      C   Em7    A
I'm very grateful she's a woman, and so easy to forget

Dm7    F       G7   Bm7-5     E7    Fdim      Fm 
Rather like a habit  one can always break and yet

     Fdim       D7                  Fm
I've grown ac - cus - tomed to the trace 

    C        Em7   Gdim       Dm7    Am7 D7/9 G7   C
Of something in the air, ac - cus - tomed to  her face.


*Requested by recent visitor Keith Brown.

**I've credited Martin's version here, only because it comes closer than others' versions do to how I would perform this. Obviously Rex Harrison's version is the gold standard, but his is too much talk-song for my taste; I'd rather treat it as the beautiful ballad that it is.


 
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