Chords for Raúl Esparza - Marry Me A Little

_ _ _ And our Tony Awards preview [D] continues this morning with the [E] Broadway Musical Company.
It is a revival of Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking show from 1970.
The new version has gotten rave reviews and received [F#] three Tony nominations,
including for [C#] Best Actor, [F#] the star Raul [G] Esparza, who [F#] is amazing.
And he's with [N] us this morning.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Congratulations.
Thank you very much.
You've had a Tony nomination before.
To get one for Best Actor in a Musical,
this is _ classic, amazing [E] Sondheim.
This is the big one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
[D] When you got the nomination, what [F#] was your response?
You know, I actually, _ I actually stood around in the apartment going,
[C#] oh, _ okay, okay, well, and then I went off and started [G#] recataloging
old albums that I had been looking through.
I started cleaning as though,
as though nothing had happened.
That was my response.
And then a few hours later,
I went, oh my God, [F] I just got nominated for a Tony.
But when it happened.
That's [C#] me, I say.
And several reviewers have [G] said, this is, you're the best,
Bobby is [A#] the central character in this.
And people have [D] said,
you're the best Bobby they've ever seen.
That's a great, great compliment, particularly because Bobby is an iconic Broadway role.
This song was, the song that closes the show, Being Alive, for instance,
[G] is the song that sort of puts Sondheim on the map.
Yeah.
[D#] And his own [A] sort of style of writing.
It's the classic [G] New Yorker, this part.
But people [D] always used to say that Bobby is a part that isn't really playable.
Right.
It doesn't do very much.
That the show belongs to [Am] everybody else in the,
[F] in this case, it's been wonderful [A#] to pull the show around and make it [N] feel like you're telling
this one man story.
The other thing about this production is, as this, your director has done
before, he takes the pit out of the orchestra and he puts the instruments in the hands of
every single actor on the stage.
[G#] So when he's casting, [F#] does he say, okay, I [Gm] need a soprano who's also [Fm] a hell of an actress who can
play [G#m] the saxophone?
Yes, I think so.
[D#] I'm not sure.
I think that they start with the _ [B] saxophone first,
and then they go to [C] the actor and then they go to the singer.
[C#] And it's incredible what the people
in [F] our cast can do.
We have an understudy, I think, plays nine instruments.
That is amazing.
He says she covers, you know, three different roles.
Right.
And in [C#] this case, when you're doing a [F] solo on stage, there's actually 14 people doing a solo
because the orchestra [N] are the other characters who are playing.
As a matter of fact, we're about
to have Matt Castle back here.
Who is so good.
Who is one of the other actors in the show.
And who coincidentally plays the piano.
Coincidentally.
Yeah.
Amazing.
So good in this.
Good luck at the Emmy Sunday night.
Please sing for us now if you don't mind.
Oh, and I will.
All right.
Thank you so much.
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_ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[C] Marry me a little.
Love me just enough.
Cry, but [F] not too [G] often.
[C] Play, but [F] not too [Em] rough.
Keep a tender [F] _
[E] distance.
[Em] So we'll both be [D] free.
That's the [D] way it [F] ought to be.
_ [G] _ _ [F] _
_ I'm [C] ready.
Marry me a little.
Body, heart and soul. _
Passionate as hell, but always [F] in control.
[Em]
Want me [F] first [A] and foremost.
[Bm] Keep me [A]
[D] company.
[C] That's the way it [F] ought to be. _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] I'm ready.
[F] _
_ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Oh, how gently we'll talk.
_ _ Oh, how softly we'll tread.
_ [E]
All the stings, the [Bm] ugly [Em] things.
We'll keep _ [A] _ _
unsaid.
[C] We'll build a [D] _
cocoon of [C] love and [D] _ respect.
You [C] _ promise _ [D] whatever you like, I'll [C]
never _ [D] collect.
_ _ That's [G] right.
_ _ Okay, then. _ _
I'm ready.
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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So good.
I'm so early.
We got goosebumps on our goosebumps after two shows,
[B] and last night, [G#] and it's not even nine o'clock.
But hey, talk about New York City, huh?
[Cm] Just right for Sondheim.
Raul Esparza, thank you so much.
And Matt Castle, [D#] thank you very much.
Good luck.
Of course, you can see the 61st Annual Tony Awards this Sunday night
at 8, 7 Central, right here [E] on CBS.
We'll be right back.
You're watching the early show on CBS.
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