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With A Song In My Heart
Words & Music by Lorenz Hart & Richard RodgersRecorded by Doris Day, 1954, with Harry James**
From the movie "Spring Is Here," 1930
Intro Verse:
E A C#m7-5 F#7
Though I know that we meet ev'ry night
E D F#m B7
And we couldn't heve changed since the last time,
Fdim A F#m D9 E7 A Edim D9 E
To my joy and delight, it's a new kind of love at first sight.
E A C#m7-5 F#7
Though it's you and it's I all the time,
E D F#m B7
Ev'ry meeting's marvelous pastime.
Fdim A F#m
You're increasingly sweet,
D9 E7 Fdim A Edim E Cdim
So whenever we happen to meet I greet you
Refrain:
A Cdim E7 A F#m Edim E7-9
With a song in my heart, I behold your adorable face.
A E7-9 F#m A Edim F#m C#7
Just a song at the start, but it soon is a hymn to your grace.
Bm Bm7/E B7 Cdim Bm
When the mu - sic swells, I'm touching you hand
F#m D9 Fdim C#7 D9
It tells that you're stand - ing near, and
A Cdim E7 A F#m D9 E7-9
At the sound of your voice, heaven opens his portals to me.
F#m Bm7 C#7 F#m E7-9 F#m Bm7-5
Can I help but rejoice that a love such as ours came to be?
F#m C#7 D A F#m B7
Yet I always knew I would live life through
A Cdim D9 E7 A
With a song in my heart for you.
*Requested by recent visitor Rick Stock.
**Though credited here to Day, her recording did not include the introductory verse, which I found as recorded by Lawrence Grey and Bernice Claire in the 1930 film "Spring Is Here."