Stay As Sweet As You Are

Words & Music by Mack Gordon & Harry Revel, 1934
Recorded by Nat King Cole, 1957


 A       E7   E7sus4  E7  A
Stay as sweet   as   you are,

E7   E7sus4 E7  F#m         D9    E
Don't  let   a thing ever change you.

 E7      D9           E7
Stay as sweet as you are,

Fdim         A            C#m7-5 F#7   
Don't let a soul re - ar - range you.

F#m         E7          F#m  Fdim(III)    F#m
Don't ever lose all the charm   you   possess,

B7               Cdim         D9 Bm7-5      E
Your loveliness, darling, the way you say "yes".


A       E7   E7sus4 E7   A
Stay as sweet  as   you are

     E7 E7sus4 E7  F#m            D9    E
Discreet  as   you are, you're divine, dear.

  A      D9  Fdim     E7
Stay as grand as you are,

 D9   Fdim  A   F#m                 Bm7   F#7
And as you are, tell me that you're mine, dear.

 F#m             C#7           F#m            B7
Young and gay or old and gray, near to me or afar,

  D9      Cdim  F#m  Dm+7        Bm7    F#m
Night and day I pray that you'll always stay

D9  E   Fdim     A
As sweet as you are.


(Instrumental Interlude - first 4 lines of verse)


F#m             C#7           F#m            B7
Young and gay or old and gray, near to me or afar,

  D9      Cdim  F#m  Dm+7        Bm7    F#m
Night and day I pray that you'll always stay

D9  E   Fdim     A
As sweet as you are.

*Suggested by recent visitor Teal Collins

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