Stormy Weather

Words & Music by Ted Hoehler & Harold Arlen, 1933
Sung by Lena Horne in Cotton Club Parade, 1943


 G     G+  C    Cdim            Dm7            G
Don't know why       there's no sun up in the sky -

G+        C  C/B    Am7
Stormy weather.

  Dm7            Fdim  Em7     C      C/B      Am7  
Since my man and  I   ain't together,

 Dm7          Fdim    C      C/B      Am7      Dm7      Fdim
Keeps rainin' all the time.


 G+       C  Cdim          Dm7           G
Life is bare,    gloom and mis'ry ev'rywhere -

G+       C      C/B     Am7
Stormy weather.

  Dm7             Fdim Em7     C      C/B     Am7
Just can't get my poor self together;

 Dm7     Fdim       C       Fdim       C
I'm weary all the time.


Bridge:

   F           Fm                   C      Dm7  C
When he went away, the blues walked in and met me;

   F          Fm                C        Dm7 C
If he stays away, old rockin' chair will get me.

   F         Fm             C         F   C
All I do is pray the Lord above will let me

 Am7        D7      Fdim(III)  G
Walk in the sun once more.


 G+       C  Cdim       Dm7            G
Can't go on,      ev'rything I had is gone -

G+      C      C/B     Am7
Stormy weather.

  Dm7            Fdim  Em7     C      C/B      Am7
Since my man and  I   ain't together,

 Dm7         Fdim       C      C/B      Am7      Dm7      Fdim
Keeps rainin' all  the time,

F             Fm   Fdim  C
Keeps rainin' all  the  time.

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