September Song (chromatic)

SEPTEMBER SONG
W: Maxwell Anderson
M: Kurt Weill
From: “Knickerbocker Holiday”
Willie Nelson, Roy Clark
Key: Bb

-3*  4  4  4   -5* -5*
When I was a young man  
-5    -5  -5   -3* 
court-ing the girls, 
-3*  4   4  4 -5*  -5*  -5 
I played me a wait-ing game. 
-3*-3* 4   4   -5* -5*   
If  a maid re-fused me  
-5*   -5  -5   -6 
with toss-ing curls, 
-6 -5* -5* -5*   7     
I  let the old earth  
7    7 -6  -6  -6   -7* 
take a cou-ple of whirls, 
-3*  -3* 4     4    4   -5* -5*  -5  -5   7  
While I plied her with tears in lieu of pearls. 
-3* -3*  4    4  4  -5*  -5*  -5  -5 -3* 
And as time came a-round she came my way. 
-3*  4    4  4  -5*   -5*  -5 
As time came a-round, she came. 

-3*  -5 -7   7     7    7 
Oh, it's a long, long while 
-3*  -3* 4* -6* -6 -6
from May to De-cem-ber, 
-5  -5   -6   -7*   8 
But the days grow short 
5     5   -3*   4  -5  -5
when you reach Sep-tem-ber. 
-3*  -3* -5  -7    7   7 
When the au-tumn weath-er 
-3*   -3*   4*  -6*  -6
turns the leaves to flame, 
-5  -6  -6  -7*  8    5   5  -5*  -5*  -5 
One has-n't got time for the wait-ing game. 
-7* -7*   8   -7*  -7 -7* -7*-7* 8*   -7* -7* 
Oh, the days dwind-le down to a prec-ious few 
-7*  8  -7* -7*  8* -7*
Sep-tem-ber, No-vem-ber.  
-3*  -5   -7   7    7    7  
And these few pre-cious days 
-3*    4*  -6*  -6     -5   -6   -7*    8    
I'll spend with you.  These pre-cious days, 
7     -7*   -7  -7* 
I'll spend with you.