Year: 1928
Music: Jimmy Mchugh
Words: Dorothy Fields
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can%27t_Give_You_Anything_but_Love,_Baby
The wikipedia ardicle says the Mchuch may have purchased the song from Fats Waller in 1926.
Fats Waller does it in Aflat, capo 1 to play along. I'm just playing it in Gee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxiOL75ASaE
Willie Nelson does it in Eb
I worked this up & then sent it to my teacher
the most excellent jazz guitarist Ricky Howard of Bonita Springs FL.
Ricky jazzified it. I combined the 2 with what I liked best.
Note, prior to the mid 1930s, chords weren't that jazzy, more ragtime: major, minor,
dominant 7th, dimished & augmented. Major & minor 7s, 9, 11, 13, + & - 5 & 9 came later.
The 1st line I had [G] [GM7] [G6] [Abdim] [Am7] [D7]
Ricky had [G6] [C9] [Bm7] [Bbdim] [Am7] [D9]
I wound up with [GM7] [G6] [Bm7] [Bbdim] [Am7] [D7]
The 3rd line is Ricky's Dm9 G13 G7+5. I had G G7.
2nd verse, the 3rd line I had Cm7 C#dim but could hear Fats playing E Eb in the bass.
So i switched it to C/E (x7555x) Ebdim (x6757x) G/D (x5543x).
Ricky had what I had originally, so I went with that.
From the G to the E7, I went F#7, F7, I went with Ricky's Bm7-5 - I love that chord.
GM7: 3x443x
Abdim: 4x343x
Am7: 5x555x
D7: x5453x
D7-9: x5454x
G6: 3x243x
Bm7: 7x777x
Bbdim: 6x565x
D9: x54555 or x5455x
Dm9: x5355x
G13: 3x345x
G7+5: 3x344x
CM7: x3545x
C6: x3225x
C#dim: x4535x
Bm7-5: x2323x
Intro
[GM7] [Abdim] [Am7] [D7] [GM7] [Abdim] [Am7] [D7-9]
Verse 1
[GM7] [G6] [Bm7] [Bbdim] [Am7] [D7]
I can't give you any- thing but love, baby
[GM7] [G6] [Bm7] [Bbdim] [Am7] [D9]
That's the only thing I've plenty of, baby
[Dm9] [G13] [G7+5]
Dream a while, scheme a while
[CM7] [C6]
We're sure to find
[A13] [A7+5]
Happiness and I guess
[Am7] [D9] [D7-9]
All those things you've always pined for
Verse 2
[GM7] [G6] [Bm7] [Bbdim] [Am7] [D9]
Gee I like to see you lookin' swell, baby
[Dm9] [G13] [G7+5] [CM7] [C6]
Diamond bracelets Woolworth doesn't sell, baby
[CM7] [C#dim] [GM7] [Bm7-5] [E7]
Till that lucky day, you know darn well, baby
[Am7] [D7] [GM7] [Abdim] [Am7] [D7]
I can't give you anything but love
(solo over verse 1)
(repeat verse 2, replace last line with the tag)
[Tag]
[Am7] [D7]
I can’t give you anything
[Bm7-5] [E7]
I can’t give you anything
[Am7] [D7-9]
I can’t give you anything
[GM7] [BbM7] [AM7] [AbM7] [F#M7] [GM7]
but love
