Body and Soul chords by
The Manhattan Transfer

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Key: C# minor

Intro 1

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Edim

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Verse 1
G#m G#m 4
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F#m F#m 2
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Don't you know,
C# C# 4
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F#m F#m 2
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he was the king of saxophones
B B 2
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E E 
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Yes indeed he was
F#m F#m 2
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G#m G#m 4
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Talkin' 'bout the guy that made  it
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Gdim Gdim 5
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F#dim F#dim 4
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F#m F#m 2
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sound so     good
G# G# 4
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Ebdim Ebdim 
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Some people knew him by the Bean
G#m G#m 4
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G#dim G#dim 6
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C#m C#m 4
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But Hawkins was his name

Verse 2
F#dim F#dim 4
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He sure could swing    and
Adim Adim 
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E E 
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play   pretty too
C# C# 4
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Sounds good to me,
F#m F#m 2
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should sound good to you
B B 2
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I love to hear him playing Body and Soul
G# G# 4
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E E 
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A A 
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Very pleasing to the ear

Verse 3
G#m G#m 4
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When I first heard it on the record
G G 
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F#m F#m 2
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I just stopped right there,
A A 
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Sounded like a band of angels
Ebdim Ebdim 
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in       the sky,
Adim Adim 
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And I have never  ever
Cdim Cdim 3
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C#m C#m 4
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heard  a sweeter tone
F#m F#m 2
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B B 2
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I     fact I pay no 'ttention to the
saxophone
Gdim Gdim 5
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C C 
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F F 
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'Til   Coleman Hawkins came
Gm Gm 3
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C C 
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along and spoke to everyone
Am Am 
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Bb Bb 
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Say ing better listen
D# D# 6
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won't you hear me,
Am Am 
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While I play for you
Dm Dm 
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Sometimes it's

Verse 4
Gm Gm 3
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hot
C C 
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F F 
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Then again it's blue
My soul just seems to wander,
Fm Fm 
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Pleasing each and everyone
Bb Bb 
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D# D# 6
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G# G# 4
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It's what I've long been craving for

Verse 5

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The doors have not been always open,

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But I am trying to please you.

Please don't stop me.

Hope you like it folks

Verse 6
F#m F#m 2
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And  then he started cookin'
C# C# 4
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F#m F#m 2
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Every time he played
F#dim F#dim 4
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B B 2
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Adim Adim 
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Some melodic  melody fast or slow
Am Am 
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E E 
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Am Am 
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You could tell that it was Hawkins
A A 
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No other

Verse 7
G#m G#m 4
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one   ever has
Gdim Gdim 5
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Quite captured his tone
F#m F#m 2
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E E 
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Just  he alone
F#m F#m 2
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D#dim D#dim 
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Has   the sound that penet    rates
A A 
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Adim Adim 
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G# G# 4
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It will sure   go right through you
C#m C#m 4
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Yes it will
F#m F#m 2
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And every chorus gives
E E 
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you just another thrill

Verse 8
C# C# 4
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Then along came Eddie Jefferson
F#m F#m 2
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He sang  the melody like Hawkins played it
B B 2
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Adim Adim 
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Cm Cm 3
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He sang   it true
G#m G#m 4
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He sang it blue
F#m F#m 2
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B B 2
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Made words for it too

Verse 9

G#m

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All his fans in New York loved him

F#m

There's no one above him

C#m

Here in the USA

I've heard 'em say ol'

Verse 10
Eddie was the man
C#m C#m 4
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C# C# 4
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Oh how he could sing
F#m F#m 2
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Man did he swing
A A 
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G#dim G#dim 6
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Sang on the wing, did his own      thing
C# C# 4
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A A 
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Yes he did

Verse 11
F#m F#m 2
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Throughout the country
Music lovers are still wiggin'
G G 
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Bdim Bdim 
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on Eddie's singin'
E E 
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F#m F#m 2
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All around the world he
G#m G#m 4
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is known
Gdim Gdim 5
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Rhythm was    his special joy
F#m F#m 2
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He swung it like a horn

Verse 12
E E 
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F#m F#m 2
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D#dim D#dim 
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He must  have been born
Adim Adim 
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to be a singer
G# G# 4
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'Cause his lyrics were so
C#m C#m 4
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sincere and true
B B 2
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Cdim Cdim 3
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Funny sad or blue
E E 
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Oh yeah!

Verse 13

And we've got to remind you

Many years it took him

Singing every day to achieve

his first claim to fame

Verse 14
Adim Adim 
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Dm Dm 
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Gm Gm 3
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C C 
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He was twenty years ahead of his time
F F 
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And he knew it
But he kept right on-a singing
singing
He went all around the world
Eb Eb 6
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making rhythm
Gm Gm 3
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'Cause music sure was in
F#dim F#dim 4
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him and he knew     it was

Verse 15
Fm Fm 
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Bb Bb 
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Sang with Moody and Richie Cole
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Dm Dm 
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He could sing it just like Bird
Ddim Ddim 
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But his forte  was the
Db Db 4
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words he wrote to
F#m F#m 2
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Music that he sang

Verse 16

F#m

So he sang, and he sang

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And he sang his words so clever

And I know they'll silence him never

G#m

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'Cause he cut this masterpiece

Verse 17
F# F# 2
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F#m F#m 2
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And now we're try   ing
A A 
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to sing it for you
D#dim D#dim 
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Hope the Bean and Eddie
G# G# 4
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both would still approve
Adim Adim 
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G# G# 4
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C#m C#m 4
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There  we  go
We didn't mean to reminisce
You can surely bet
F#m F#m 2
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That we won't forget
F F 
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'Cause we hear them yet
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E E 
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Goodbye

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