Nice 'n' Easy

Words & Music by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman** (nee Keith) & Lew Spence
Recorded by Frank Sinatra, 1960


A     Ab*   A  Ab   A  D9   A
Let's take it nice 'n' ea - sy

F#m7 Fm7  F#m7 Fm7 F#m7 Bm7  F#m7 Bm  Bm9* Bm C#m7-5   E7
It's gon - na  be   so   ea - sy  for  us  to  fall in love

A    Ab   A    Ab     A   D9    A
Hey, ba - by, what's your hur - ry?

F#m7 Fm7 F#m7 Fm7 F#m7 Bm7  F#m7  Bm   Bm9*  Bm C#m7-5    D    C#7
Re - lax 'n' don't you wor - ry, we're gon - na  fall in love

F#m  F#m+7   F#m7   Ebm7-5*       D        Cdim     A
We're on the road to  ro - mance,   that's safe to say

    AM7       C#m7-5     F#     F#7     Bm7-5   E7
But let's make  all  the stops along the way

A     Ab    A  Ab   A   D9     A
The prob - lem now, of course, is

F#m7 Fm7  F#m7 Fm7  F#m7 Bm7  F#m7  D    Fdim   D  C#7    F#m   Dm6
 To  sim - ply hold your hor - ses -- to rush would be a crime 

       AM7   A  AM7  A   D9    E7/6       A
'Cause nice 'n' ea - sy does it ev - 'ry time


(Instrumental Interlude - first 4 lines above)


F#m  F#m+7   F#m7   Ebm7-5*       D        Cdim     A
We're on the road to  ro - mance,   that's safe to say

    AM7       C#m7-5     F#     F#7     Bm7-5   E7
But let's make  all  the stops along the way

A     Ab    A  Ab   A   D9       F#m7 Fm7  F#m7 Fm7  F#m7 Bm7  F#m7
The prob - lem now, of course, is to  sim - ply hold your hor - ses

D    Fdim  D   C#7   F#m   Dm6        AM7   A  AM7  A   D9  E
  To rush would be a crime     'cause nice 'n' ea - sy does it

AM7   A  AM7  A   D9  E   AM7   A  AM7  A   D9     E7/6      A  G#7  F#7
Nice 'n' ea - sy does it, nice 'n' ea - sy does it ev - 'ry time


AM7   A  AM7  A   D9  E   AM7   A  AM7  A   D9  E   
Nice 'n' ea - sy does it, nice 'n' ea - sy does it,

AM7   A  AM7  A   D9     E7/6      A   D9  A
Nice 'n' ea - sy does it ev - 'ry time.


*Couple of "new" chords used here. The Ab (that's "A flat" by the way) is just a basic A chord sliding the fretted notes from 222 to 111. You could also use Am here, harmonically, but it's simpler just to slide the fingers using the same formation than to repeatedly re-position them. The Bm9 chord at "for us to fall in love" is just a basic Bm barre formation on the second fret (224432) with whichever finger you use for the "3" there removed and then replaced so that you're playing 224432 then 224422 then 224432 again. The Ebm7-5 (E flat minor 7 flat 5) at "road to romance" is played x6767x -- the same basic formation utilized for the Bm7-5 and C#m7-5 chords re-located a couple of frets further down the neck. Personally, it makes more visual sense to me to name that a D#m7-5 since I frequently use the C#m7-5 anyway, but I already offend enough musical purists as it is, and most of them seem to prefer the name E-flat to D-sharp for the same note.

There are a lot of changes here, I know. Can it be played more simply? Of course. But part of the object here is to be complete enough that the guitar can carry the song on its own, without the benefit of vocal support.

**The reference to maiden name here, found on the source which I used to verify authorship, suggests that the Bergman's had recently married at the time this was written, and that she may have been better known then by the last name of Keith. However, given later compositions done with Michel Legrand ("Brian's Song," for example) she is no doubt much better known now as Marilyn Bergman.



 
The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.