Chords for Blossom Dearie: They Say It's Spring

_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] When I was [F] young I lived in a world of dreams
_ [Db] _ _ _ [Fm] Of [Db] moods and myths [F] and _ [Db] illusionary schemes
[Fm] _ _ _
_ Though now I'm much [Gm] more grown [C] up.
I
[Fm] Fear that [Gm] I must own [C] up
_ To the [F] fact [Fm] that I'm in doubt of
[Bb] _ What the modern
_ [Eb] cynics shout
_ [G] They _ _ [Ab] _
_ [Fm] say [Bbm] it's spring
[G] _ _ [Eb] _
_ [F] This [Bb] feeling light [Eb] as a feather
[G] _
[F] They say [G] this thing
[C] _ _ [Fm] _
_ This [Gm] magic we share together [Fm] _
came with the weather [Bbm] too
[G] _ _ [Ab] _
_ [Fm] They [Bbm] say it's [G] may _ _
_ [Fm] That's [Bbm] made me [G] daft as a [F] daisy
_ It's may they [G] say
[Fm] _
_ That [Gm] gave the whole world this [Fm]
crazy heavenly [Bbm] hazy [Eb] hue
I'm [Dm] a law.
[B] I'm a [Eb] wing.
_ [Dm] I'm the spark [G] of a _ [Cm] firefly's [F] flame yet [Bbm] to me
This [Eb] must be
Something [Bbm]
more than a seasonal [G] thing
[C] _ _ [Ab] _
[Fm] They say [Bbm] it's spring
[G] _ _ [Eb] _
[Fm] Those [Bbm] bells that I [G] can hear ringing
[Fm] It may [F] be [C] spring
_ [Fm] _
But when [Gm] the robin starts [Fm] singing you're what I'm clinging to
[B] _ [Cm] Though they [Fm] say [Bbm] it's [G] spring it's you
[Eb] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Cm] _
_ [Ebm] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [A] _ _ [Ab] _
[Fm] If [Bbm] poets sing
[G] _ _ [Eb] _
That [Db] when a heart's [G] sympathetic
_ [Eb] _
[Fm] It's [Gm] merely [C] spring
_ [Fm] _
Then poets [Gm] plights are pathetic [Fm]
though i'm poetic [Bbm] too
[G] _ _ [Ab] _
[Fm] They say [Bbm] it's spring
[G] _ _ [Ab] _
[Fm] For [Bbm] lovers there's [G] where the lure [Ab]
is [Fm] that evil [G] thing
[E] _ _ [Fm] _
For which [Gm] _ september the cure [F]
is [Ab] this they are [Bbm] sure is true
[Dm] Though I [G] know
That it's [Cm] so
_ [Dm] That my fancy [B] may turn [Cm] in the spring
with [Bbm] the right
one [Cm] in sight
[F] One [Bbm] can find a perpetual [Dbm] _ [E] thing
_ [Ab] _
[Fm] Did I [Bbm] need spring
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _
[F] To bring [Bbm] the ring [G] that you bought [Ab] me _ [Fm] though it [Gm] was spring
[C] _ _ [Fm] _
That [Gm] wondrous day [C] that you caught [Fm] me darling I thought [Bb] we knew
[Bm] _ _ [Ab]
That [Fm] it was [Bbm] a spring
_ It was you
[Eb] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Fm] _
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