I love Paris - Ella Fitzgerald
Key: [G] / [Gm]
From the album Ella Fitzgerald sings the Cole Porter Songbook
Recent horrific events got me remembering how much I loved Paris.
This version of Ella Fitzgeralds incudes the recitative section which is
in the original, but is often missed out.
Passing chords in () are optional
In the recitative play single arpeggio chords where marked.
[Introduction]
[G] [Em] [Am6] [D7] [G6] [Am7] [D7] [Ebdim7]
[Recitative]
[G] [Am]
Every time I look down on this timeless town
[D7] [Ebdim7] [G]
Whether blue or gray be her skies
[G] [E7] [Am7] [D7]
Whether loud be her cheers or whether soft be her tears
[Cm6] [D7] [G] [Edim]
More and more do I realize that
Verse 1
[Gm]
I love Paris in the spring time
[Gm] [D7]
I love Paris in the fall
[D7]
I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles
[D7] [Cm] [D7] [Gm]
I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles
[G]
I love Paris every moment
( [G] [D7] [G] [D7] [Am7] ) [D7]
Every mom-ent of the year
[C]
I love Paris
[G] [C] [G]
Why, oh, why do I love Paris?
[D7] ( [D6] [D7] [D6] [D7] ) [G]
Be - cause my love is near
Instrumental
[Gm]
[Gm] [D7]
[D7]
[D7] [Cm] [D7] [Gm]
[G]
( [G] [D7] [G] [D7] [Am7] ) [D7]
[C] [G] [C] [G]
[D7] ( [D6] [D7] [D6] [D7] ) [G] [Cm6/G]
Verse 2
[Gm]
I love Paris in the spring time
[Gm] [D7]
I love Paris in the fall
[D7]
I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles
[D7] [Cm] [D7] [Gm]
I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles
[G]
I love Paris every moment
( [G] [D7] [G] [D7] [Am7] ) [D7]
Every mom-ent of the year
[C]
I love Paris
[G] [C] [G]
Why, oh, why do I love Paris?
[D7] [Em7] [D7] [Em7] [D7] [G]
Because my love is near
Outro
[Edim7] [Eb7] [D7] [Gm]
