Johnny Green wrote this song in 1933.
Billie Holiday had a hit with it in 1946: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHYbOh6i-dU
Here's me playing the tabL: https://youtu.be/Hl_F405zKYM?si=nwTdOuEdHM9y0eVb
[Dmaj7add13] x57677
[Ebmaj7add13] x68788
Intro
[Abm7] [Gm7] [F7] [Bb7+5] [Bb7]
[Ebmaj7] [Db7]
Away from the city
[Ebmaj7] [Db7]
that hurts and knocks,
[Ebmaj7] [Db7]
I’m standing alone
[Ebmaj7] [Db7]
by the desolate docks
[Ebmaj7] [Bb13] [Ebmaj7] [Db7]
In the still and the chill of the night
[Ebmaj7] [Db7]
I see the horizon
[Ebmaj7] [Db7]
the great unknown
[Ebmaj7] [Db7]
My heart has an ache
[Ebmaj7] [Db7]
It’s as heavy as stone
[Ebmaj7] [Bb13] [Ebmaj7] [E9]
With the dawn coming on, make it last
Verse
[F9] [Bb13]
I cover the waterfront
[Ebmaj7] [Abmaj7] [Gm7] [Gbm7]
I'm watching the sea
[Fm7] [Bb7+5] [Ebmaj7] [Cm7] [Fm7] [Bb7+5]
Will the one I love be coming back to me?
Verse
[F9] [Bb13]
I cover the waterfront
[Ebmaj7] [Abmaj7] [Gm7] [Gbm7]
In search of my love
[Fm7] [Bb7+5] [Ebmaj7] [Ab7] [Bb7] [Ebmaj7]
And I'm covered by a starlit sky above
Bridge
[Fm7] [Bb7]
Here am I
[Gm7] [C7]
patiently waiting,
[Fm7] [Bb7]
hoping and longing
[Gm7] [Ebmaj7]
Oh, how I yearn
[Gm7] [C7]
Where are you?
[Am7] [D7]
Are you forgetting?
[Gm7] [C7]
Do you remember?
[Fm7] [Bb7]
Will you return?
Outro
[F9] [Bb13]
I cover the waterfront
[Ebmaj7] [Abmaj7] [Gm7] [Gbm7]
I'm watching the sea
[Fm7] [Bb7+5] [Ebmaj7] [Gm7] [C7]
For the one I love must soon come back to me?
Instrumental
[F9] [Bb13]
[Ebmaj7] [Abmaj7] [Gm7] [Gbm7]
[Fm7] [Bb7+5] [Dmaj7add13] [Ebmaj7add13]
For the one I love must soon come back to me?
