No One Ever Tells You

Words & Music by Carroll Coates & Hub Atwood
Recorded by Frank Sinatra, 1958


A           Gm7               A               Gm7
No one ever tells you what's like to love and lose,

A               Gm7             A                 Gdim
How it feels to waken and have breakfast with the blues,

D6            Dm6           A    C#m7-5  F#7
How to go on living, how to face another day --

D9          Dm+7 Fdim      E7
No one ever tells you the way.


A           Gm7               A             Gm7
No one ever tells you how it feels to walk alone,

A                   Gm7                    A          Gdim
Listening for those footsteps through the echo of your own.

D6           Dm6                A             C#m7-5  F#7
Suddenly it hits you all those dreams weren't worth a dime,

       D9     Dm6   Bb9  E7      A
'Cause no one ever tells you in time.


Bridge:

Gm7    Gdim     D   DM7      D6
Long before the icy winds of winter,

Dm7    Fdim       A7        A7+5     D
Autumn tells the swallows, "Time to fly."

Gm7             A    Gm7             A
Why did she pretend, till the bitter end,

Dm      Dm6      Bm7-5   Fdim        E7
Till it broke my heart to say, "Goodbye."


    A           Gm7                 A             Gm7
And no one ever tells you that it's just another fling;

A            Gm7                 A              Gdim
No one ever warns you when your heart begins to sing.

D6                 Dm6          A     C#m7-5    F#7
Someone tells you later all is fair in love and war,

    D9     Dm6   Bb9  E7      A
But no one ever tells you before.



Coda:

  C#m7-5        F#7 
It never comes easy, 

D9     Dm7  E7            A
No one ever tells you before.




 
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