I Won't Dance

Words & Music by Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh & Jerome Kern
Recorded by Frank Sinatra, 1957
From the musical "Roberta"


C       Em7   Am7      G
I won't dance,   don't ask me. 

C       Em7   Am7      G
I won't dance,   don't ask me. 

C       CM7   Dm7   G7         C  C/B   A7
I won't dance,   madame, with you.

   Gdim         F    Fm  Gdim   G           C Em  F  G7
My heart won't let me do things they should do. 


C        Em7   Am7       G
You know what?    You're lovely.

C        Em7   Am7        G
You know what?    You're lovely.

C       CM7  Dm7    G7     C  C/B   A7
But, oh what    you do to me. 

    Fdim    F     Fm          Fdim   G       C    C/B   A7
I'm like an ocean wave that's bumped on the shore;

  Fdim    F   Fm      Fdim   G        C    C - Am7 - Bb7 - C
I feel so absolutely stumped on the floor.


Bridge:

G#                     G#9      G#         G#7
When you dance, you're charming and you're gentle, 

C#                 C#9     C#   C#7
'Specially when you do the Continental.

B               B7            C7
But this feeling isn't purely mental, 

          Bm7-5 E7  Am7    Cdim      FM7   G7
For heaven rest us,    I'm not  as - bes - tos.

G   Am7    D9
And that's why 

C        Em7   Am7       G
I won't dance,    why should I? 

C        Em7   Am7       G
I won't dance,    how could I? 

C       Em7   Am7    G      C    C/B  A7
I won't dance,   Merci beaucoup. 

  Gdim      F     Fm       Fdim G   C      C/B   A7
I know that music leads the way to romance, 

  Gdim  FM7     Cdim   Dm7  Fdim      C
So if I hold you in my arms, I won't dance.

*Requested by several visitors over the past several months, most recently by Dewey Mace and Ian Reoch.

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