Notes:
Here's Ella Fitzgerald in Ab, from whence came the intro: https://youtu.be/1w1WuuG6XgA
Also the 2nd line of the bridge: "Start a-hopping, never stopping"
Here's Antonio Carlos Jobim's version, which is the rest of the tab: https://youtu.be/dBAnjNWIRk8
Here's me playing the tab: https://youtu.be/mMX5jmdMEro
I looked up "flivver", it is an old & cheap automobile.
Intro
[Cm] [Bb] [Ab] [G7]
Got a little rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm
[Fm] [Eb] [D7] [G7]
That pitter-pats through my brain
[Cm] [Bb] [Ab] [G7]
So darn persistent, the day isn't distant
[Cm] [Fm] [G7] [Cm]
When it'll drive me in--sane
[Gm] [F] [Eb] [D7]
Comes in the morning without any warning
[Cm] [Bb] [Eb] [D7]
And hangs around me all day
[Gm] [F] [Eb] [Eb7]
I'll have to sneak up to it, someday and speak up to it
[D7] [G7]
I hope it listens when I say:
[Dm7] [G13] (4x)
Verse 1
[Dm7] [G13] [Dm7] [G13]
Fascinating rhythm, you've got me on the go
[Dm7] [G13] [Dm7] [G13]
Fascinating rhythm, I'm all aquiver
[Gm7] [C13] [Gm7] [C13]
What a mess you're making, the neighbors want to know
[Gm7] [C13] [Gm7] [C13]
Why I'm always shaking, just like a flivver
Bridge
[Fmaj7] [Dm7] [G13] [C6]
Each morning I get up with the sun
[C7]
Start a-hopping, never stopping
[Am7] [D7] [Dm7] [G13]
To find at night no work has been done I know that
Verse 2
[Dm7] [G13] [Dm7] [G13]
once it didn't matter, but now you're doing wrong
[Dm7] [G13] [Dm7] [G13]
When you start to patter, I'm so unhappy
[Gm7] [C13] [Gm7] [C13]
Won't you take a day off, decide to run along
[Gm7] [C13] [Gm7] [C13]
Somewhere far away off, and make it snappy
Chorus
[Fmaj7] [Bm7-5] [E7-9] [Am7] [D9]
Oh, how I long to be the man I used to be
[Dm7] [G13] [Dm7] [G13] [G7+5] [C#9]
Fascinating rhythm, oh, won't you stop picking on me?
(modulate to Bb)
[D9] [Eb9]
Fascinating rhythm Fascinating rhythm
Instrumental
[Bbm] [Bbm+7] [Bbm7] [Bbm6] [Bbm/F#] [Bbm/F] [Bbm/Eb] [Bbm/C#] [Bbm]
[Ebm] [Ebm+7] [Ebm7] [Ebm6] [Ebm/B] [Ebm/Bb] [Ebm/Ab] [Ebm/F#] [Ebm]
Bridge
[Ebmaj7] [Cm7] [F13] [Bbmaj7]
Each morning I get up with the sun
[Gm7] [C7] [Cm7] [F13]
To find at night no work has been done I know that
(Modulate back to C)
Verse 3
[Dm7] [G13] [Dm7] [G13]
Once it didn't matter, but now you're doing wrong
[Dm7] [G13] [Dm7] [G13]
When you start to patter, I'm so unhappy
[Gm7] [C13] [Gm7] [C13]
Won't you take a day off, decide to run along
[Gm7] [C13] [Gm7] [C13]
Somewhere far away off, and make it snappy
Outro
[Fmaj7] [Bm7-5] [E7-9] [Am7] [D7]
Oh, how I long to be the man I used to be
[Dm7] [G13] [Dm7] [G13]
Fascinating rhythm
[Em7-5] [A7] [Em7-5] [A7]
Fascinating rhythm
[Dm7] [G13] [Dm7] [G13] [C#9]
Fascinating rhythm, oh, won't you stop picking on me?
[D9] [Eb9] [C6]
Fascinating rhythm, Fascinating rhythm pickin on me
