Maybe You'll Be There

Words & Music by Sammy Gallop & Rube Bloom, 1947
Recorded by Jane Morgan, 1958


A           AM7             E7        E7/9     E7
Each time I see a crowd of people,

F#m         F#m/E             C#m7-5      F#7
Just like a fool, I stop and stare;

Bm7         F7       E7     A    AM7  F#7            
It's really not the proper thing  to  do,

Bm         D9        E7    F7   E7
But maybe you'll be there.


A        AM7            E7      E7/9     E7
I go out walking after midnight

F#m     F#m/E          C#m7-5   F#7
Along a lonely thoroughfare;

Bm7          F7      E7        A   AM7 F#7
It's not the time or place to look for you,

Bm7       D9     E7  D9    Bm7-5    A
But maybe you'll be there.


Bridge:

 A          Fdim(III)   Fdim      A6  A
You said your arms would al-ways hold me,

               F#               F#7     Bm    Bm7
You said your lips were mine a-lone to kiss;

          D9         D7/9       A        F#7
Now after all those things you told me,

B7          B7/F#      F7       E7
How could it end like this?


A          AM7                 E7           E7/9     E7
Someday if all my prayers are answered,

F#m         F#m/E           C#m7-5   F#7
I'll hear a footstep on the stair;

Bm7           F7         E7    A  AM7  F#7
With anxious heart, I'll hurry to the door,

Bm         D9        E7      F7     E7
And maybe you'll be there.


(Instrumental interlude:  verse 2)


Repeat Bridge:

A          AM7                E7           E7/9     E7
Someday if all my prayers are answered,

F#m          F#m/E          C#m7-5   F#7
I'll hear a footstep on the stair;

Bm7           F7          E7   A  AM7  F#7
With anxious heart, I'll hurry to the door,

D9        Bm7-5  E7   A    F#7
And maybe you'll be there. 

D9         E7        A    AM7   Fdim      Bm7-5   E7   A9
And maybe you'll be there,           maybe you'll be there.


This is a song I discovered by accident. I had been looking for Morgan's "The Day The Rains Came" and finally found it on an album in a used record store. Playing through the rest of the album by needle-drop, listening to just a few seconds worth of the other songs in passing, I stumbled on this one...and knew immediately that I had to transcribe it immediately and learn how to play it. Now I know what the word "serendipity" means.


 
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