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You Turned the Tables On Me
Words & Music by Louis Alter & Sidney Mitchell
Recorded by Benny Goodman, 1936*
D F#m Bm Em7 D Dalt G A7
I was the apple of your eye,
D F#m C Am7 D Am7 Gdim D
I had you with me every day;
D G Edim Dalt A7(V)
But now whenever you are passing by,
D Dalt A7(V) G5 A7sus4 Bm Bm7/E G Em7
You're always looking the oth - er way.
Bm F#m B7 A7/6
It's little things like this that prompt me to say:
D6 Fdim Edim Em7 Edim
You turned the tables on me,
A7 Em7 Edim Dalt D6
And now I'm falling for you;
D6 Fdim Edim Em7 Edim
You turned the tables on me --
A7 Em7/9 Edim Cdim B7
I can't be - lieve that it's true,
Cdim Am7 G6 G5
I al - ways thought when you brought
G6 Fdim
The lovely presents you bought
Edim D6 D9 G A-9 D6
Why hadn't you brought me more,
G G/F# Em7 Em6 Gm7 Gdim
But now if you'd come, I'd welcome anything from
A7 G6 A-9 A7
The five and ten cent store,
D6 Fdim Edim Em7 Edim
You used to call me the top,
A7 Dalt D6
You put me up on a throne;
D D9 D D7/9
You let me fall with a drop,
D7/9 Am7 Fdim G9 G
And now I'm out on my own.
G7 Gm7 Edim Gdim Gm7
But after thinking it over and over,
D F#7 B7
I got what was coming to me --
G6 A-9 A7
Just like the sting of a bee,
Em7sus4 A7 A7+5 D (Cdim - Em7 - A7)
You turned the tables on me.
*Suggested by recent visitor Mark Miller. Goodman's version lacks the intro verse; the only version I've found that actually includes it is Sarah Vaughan's 1961 recording with the Count Basie Orchestra.
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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