Here are the Chords:
JAB
I Love to Sing
Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
Music by Harold Arlen
From the book: "The Great Looney Tunes Collection" Warner Brothers Publications, 1990
Performed by Cab Calloway & Al Jolson
INTRO:
C G7 C F Fm C Dm7 C
Ah! Oh! ain't it grand to live and breathe and let your chest ex - pand,
D A7 D G Gm D Em7 D
Ah! The skies are blue, The world's a song, When life is notes to you,
Bm Bm(maj7) Bm7 E7 A7 A+ D7
I've got e-ternal youth be -c...ause, .I've got my heart where it be -longs,
Am Am(maj7) Am7 D7
Don't care who makes the nation's la...ws,
Dm7 F Fm Fm6 G7
Long as I can sing its so...ngs;
REFRAIN:
C(maj7) C Ab7 G7 Ddim Am C7
I love to sing-a a-bout the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a,
F Fm C Am7 Dm7
I love to sing-a a-bout a sky of blue-a, or a tea for two-a,
G7 C Em Am Dm C#dim G7 Ab7
An-y-thing-a with a swing-a to an "I love you-a,"
C Am7 Dm7 G7 C6 C#dim Dm7 G7
I love-a to, I love-a to s.....i.....n......g!
C(maj7) C Ab7 G7 Ddim Am C7
Give me a song-a a -bout a son-a gun who went and done her wrong-a.
F Fm C Am7 Dm7
But keep it clean-a; .With a cot-tage small-a by a waterfall-a,
G7 C Em Am Dm C#dim G7 Ab7
An-y sob-a that'll throb-a to a blue -bird's call -a,
C Am7 Dm7 G7 C F6 C
I love-a to, I love-a to s..i..ng!
F7 E7(sus4) E7 F7 E7
I was bo.........rn a sing-in' fool-a, Lah-de-dah!
E7(sus4) E7 Eb7 D7(sus4) D7 Eb7 D7
Ol' Ma -jor Bowes is gonna spot me, Got through Y....ale with boula-boula,Lah-de-dah!
Hol-ly -wood
G7 G+
Old microphone's got me!
C(maj7) C Ab7 G7 Ddim Am C7
I love to sing-a, I love to wake up with the South-a in my mouth-a,
F Fm C Am7 Dm7 Ddim Am
And wave a flag-a, With a cheer for Uncle Sammy and an -other for my mam -my,
Dm G7(sus4) G7 C C#dim Dm7 G7
I love to s..i......ng!... (First ending)
Dm G7(sus4) G7 C
I love to s..i......ng! (Second ending)
Added in the Cab-Calloway & Al Jolson performance
The swingin'est,
Hot singin'est,
Bell-ringin'est,
Song singin'est
High tootin'est,
Sky tootin'est,
I love to sing!