Fascinating Rhythm – George Gershwin · Song Chords

Fascinating Rhythm

George Gershwin · C

Real Key

C

C

0.2x

120

BPM

1

2

3

4

Rhythm

2/4

3/4

4/4

5/4

6/8

7/8

No Accent

Downbeat

Backbeat

All Equal

1 & 3

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

Chords Used (40)

Guitar

Ukulele

Cm

1 / 4

Bb

1 / 4

Ab

1 / 4

G7

1 / 4

Fm

1 / 4

Eb

1 / 4

D7

1 / 4

Gm

1 / 4

F

1 / 5

Eb7

1 / 4

Dm7

10fr

1 / 5

G13

1 / 4

Gm7

1 / 5

C13

2fr

1 / 4

Fmaj7

1 / 4

C6

1 / 4

C7

1 / 4

Am7

1 / 6

D9

4fr

1 / 4

C#9

1 / 4

Eb9

1 / 4

Bbm

N/A

Bbm7

N/A

Bbm6

N/A

Bbm/F#

N/A

Bbm/F

N/A

Bbm/Eb

N/A

Bbm/C#

N/A

Ebm

N/A

Ebm7

N/A

Ebm6

N/A

Ebm/B

N/A

Ebm/Bb

N/A

Ebm/Ab

N/A

Ebm/F#

N/A

Ebmaj7

N/A

Cm7

8fr

1 / 5

F13

1 / 4

Bbmaj7

N/A

A7

1 / 4

Song Info

Real Key

C

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