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Thread #37005   Message #515675
Posted By: JohnInKansas
27-Jul-01 - 02:30 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Nobody Knows You When You're ...
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: nobody knows u when u're down
Weeell, I gotta work on my speed
No answers here when I went to look, and now you guys done it all.
Just 'cause I did find some provenance that isn't cited in any of the above, I'm gonna past it anyhow, as a "fair use" for discussion of chord/key variations.

From "The Hal Leonard Real Jazz Book," ISBN 0-7965-6230-9
Words and Music by Jimmie Cox
Copyright 1923, 1929, 1959, 1963 by MCA Music Publishing

In F
4/4 time


  F  A7   D7          Gm            D7        Gm
No body /knows you / when you're down and /out

Bb Bdim7 F Eb7 D7

G9 C7 / And your friends/ you haven't any And

F A7 D7 /soon as you get on your /feet again

Gm D7 Gm D7 Gm / Ev'ry body is your /long lost friend.

Bb Bdim7 F Eb7 D7 / It's mighty strange, with /out a doubt, But

G9 G7b5 C7 /nobody wants you when you're /down and out

G9 Db9 C9 F6 C7#5 / Nobody wants you when you're /down and out


Repeat from top, with 2d ending

G9 Db9 C9 F6
/ Nobody wants you when you're /down and out

Measures shown "/". Note that several of the chords are lagged or lead vs the lyric.

John