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This Is All I Ask
Words & Music by Gordon Jenkins
Recorded by Tony Bennett, 1963 (#70)
Intro Verse:
G7 C Edim Dm7 G7
As I approach the prime of my life,
Dm7 G7 Cdim C
I find I have the time of my life
C/B F Fdim
Learning to enjoy at my leisure
Em B7 Edim
All the simple pleasures,
F G C E7
And so I hap - pi - ly concede
A7 Cm7-5 A7 Dm7 Dm7-5 G7
This is all I ask,
Dm7 G7 Fdim C Edim Dm7
This is all I need.
G7 Am7 G/B C Am Edim Gdim
Beau - ti - ful girls, walk a little slower
Dm7 Fdim G7 C
When you walk by me;
G7 Am7 G/B C7
Lin - ger - ing sunsets,
Dm Am Dm6 B7 CM7 Am7 B7
Stay a little longer with the lone - ly sea.
Cdim B7 Em B+ Em7
Children everywhere, when you shoot at bad men,
Em6 A7 Em7 A7
Shoot at me
Am7 Am7-5 D7 Am7 D7
Take me to that strange, enchanted land
Dm7 Am7 Em7-5 G7+
Grown-ups seldom un - ders - tand.
G7 Am7 G/B C Am Edim Gdim
Wan - der - ing rainbows, leave a bit of color
Dm7 Fdim G7 C
For my heart to own;
G7 Am7 G/B C7 Dm Gdim Dm
Stars in the sky, make my wish come true
B7 C Cdim Am
Before the night has flown,
Asus4 Am FM7 E7-9 B7 Em C9 Am7 Edim
And let the music play as long as there's a song to sing,
A7 Dm7 Dm7-5 G7 Fdim C
And I will stay younger than Spring.
Most recently suggested by, and based in part on a chart provided by, recent visitor Fiel Santos.
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.
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