It Had To Be You

Words & Music:

Gus Kahn & Isham Jones (1924)

 

Great chords courtesy of Jumbo Jim's.

 

    D+         G  D+  G    G/B        E7   Dm7-5   E7

It had to be you------, it had to be you------------.

 

  E7sus4      E7       E7sus4     A9      A7        A9     A7    A9

I wandered  around and finally found the somebody who

 

                   D  Dmaj7 D7      Cdim         Em    B+   

Could make me be true,        could make be be blue

 

     Em7     A7   Em7        A   Gdim        D     Cdim     D7

And even be glad just to be sad thinkin' of you.   

 

 

       D+          G   D+  G        G/B      E7    Dm7-5   E7

Some others I've seen        might never be mean

 

    E7sus4        E7       E7sus4     A9        A7            A9   A7   A9

Might e - ven be cross, or try to be boss, but they wouldn't do.

 

     Em7     C                 Cm

For nobody else gives me the thrill

 

Gdim             G          B7          Em

With all your faults, dear, I love you still.

 

   Gdim      D7   Gdim      D7

It had to be you, wonderful you,

 

   D9         G   Cm6  G6

It had to be you.

 

 




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