Tonalité : Eb major
Verse 1
Am
A
F
Em
A
F#m
That sweet expression,
B
Em
Aaug
A
the smile you gave me
Am
It's easy to remember,
Dsus4
Ebdim
D
G
or is it?
C
A poetic jazz member
F#m
B
It's March, of 1963
Em
Am
In mid- morning, New Jersey
A
F#m
Two musicians drive through the snow bound,
suburban landscape
Aaug
B
F
On their way to a recording session
Bb
Verse 2
Asus4
One,
A
an intensely dedicated musical explorer
D
Has, of late, been studying
F
the way singers breathe
Em
Asus4
A
And hopes he would hear Frank
Aaug
Sinatra on the radio
A
so he can consider one more
C
D
no tion before the session
Gm
The other,
C
Gm
an experienced song stylist
G
D
C
Wonders whether he will ever hear his own
F#m
B
Em
voice over the airways
A
D
The two men met only last week and have
only played a few pieces together
Bbaug
Bb
The singer sitting in informally
Verse 3
Am
D
at Club Manhattan
The singer is a little concerned
G
that the band was gonna break
Em
Into some of the wild stuff
Am
he's heard them play
But the band leader,
Eb
D
the gentle and positive man
G
Will be going for something altogether
different on this occasion
C
Gm
Something wholly sympathetic to
C
F
the sound the singer has
Verse 4
Bb
F
E
The two were joking and smoking and
Edim
Talking about the songs
D
they will record today
E
A
Asus4
They carry no chats,
D
A
D
F
and have made no formal musical arrangements
Or even had a real rehearsal
Em
Everyone at the session will know
A
the tunes already
Each man having performed them,
F#m
in a hundred different countries
B
No one at the session will need to
Em
A
be told what to do or what to play
Aaug
Dm
The band is so well acquainted that
Verse 5
Am
any move that need to be established
Ebdim
G
Will come naturally
B
As the cats in the car talk
G
about what is to come
D
Over the car's radio comes Nat Cole
C
Gm
C
singing 'Lush Life'
Now he who doesn't know
all the words
Aaug
Out of fun the singer joins in any way
F#m
B
And the two add one more tun
Em
A
C
e to the said list
Verse 6
C
When they got to the studio, they end
B
up recording it in one take
In fact, they do everything
in one take
Gm
Almost the entire record except
D
'You are too beautiful'
Bb
Where they do a second take because of
Edim
Em
Asus4
a dropped drum stick
A
In three or four hours they are done
Am
C
Dsus4
Laughter, handshakes a long drive
Verse 7
home
Gm
Just a year or so later,
F
Bb
John Coltrane will go onto the highest artistic peaks
Em
Leading the same band in the creation of
A
'Crescent' and 'A love supreme'
C
Arguably the de fining
D
works of his career
G
C
D
And among the most beloved and respected
B
Ebdim
in the history of recorded music
B
A
Although Johnny Hartman will go on to make
F
D
some great Ballard records after this one
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B
Including some attempting to echo the magic
of the one he makes with strings
Verse 8
Em
Most go unnoticed upon their release
A
Asus4
Broad fame will elude Hartman
A
D
until well after this death
F
Eb
F
Em
But we remember them both
A
We're Jazz people
D
And for us, it's easy
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