Body and Soul chords by The Manhattan Transfer

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Am
F#dim
E
Edim
C
B
G#m
F#m
C#
Gdim
G#
Ebdim
G#dim
C#m
Adim
A
G
Cdim
F
Gm
Bb
D#
Dm
Fm
D#dim
D
Cm
Bdim
Eb
Ddim
Db
F#

Intro 1

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Verse 1
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Don't you know,
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he was the king of saxophones
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Yes indeed he was
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Talkin' 'bout the guy that made  it
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sound so     good
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Some people knew him by the Bean
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But Hawkins was his name

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Verse 2

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He sure could swing and

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play pretty too

Sounds good to me,

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should sound good to you

I love to hear him playing Body and Soul

Very pleasing to the ear

Verse 3
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When I first heard it on the record
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I just stopped right there,
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Sounded like a band of angels
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in       the sky,
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And I have never  ever
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heard  a sweeter tone
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I fact I pay no 'ttention to the
saxophone
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'Til   Coleman Hawkins came
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along and spoke to everyone
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Say ing better listen
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won't you hear me,
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While I play for you
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Sometimes it's

Verse 4
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hot
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Then again it's blue
My soul just seems to wander,
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Pleasing each and everyone
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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
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And  then he started cookin'
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Every time he played
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Some melodic  melody fast or slow
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You could tell that it was Hawkins
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No other

Verse 7
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one   ever has
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Quite captured his tone
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Just  he alone
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Has   the sound that penet    rates
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It will sure   go right through you
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Yes it will
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And every chorus gives
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you just another thrill

Verse 8
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Then along came Eddie Jefferson
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He sang  the melody like Hawkins played it
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He sang   it true
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He sang it blue
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Made words for it too

Verse 9

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All his fans in New York loved him

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There's no one above him

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Here in the USA

I've heard 'em say ol'

Verse 10
Eddie was the man
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Oh how he could sing
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Man did he swing
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Sang on the wing, did his own      thing
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Yes he did

Verse 11
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Throughout the country
Music lovers are still wiggin'
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on Eddie's singin'
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All around the world he
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is known
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Rhythm was    his special joy
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He swung it like a horn

Verse 12
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He must  have been born
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to be a singer
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'Cause his lyrics were so
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sincere and true
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Funny sad or blue
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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
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He was twenty years ahead of his time
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And he knew it
But he kept right on-a singing
singing
He went all around the world
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making rhythm
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'Cause music sure was in
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him and he knew     it was

Verse 15
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Sang with Moody and Richie Cole
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He could sing it just like Bird
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But his forte  was the
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words he wrote to
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Music that he sang

Verse 16

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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

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'Cause he cut this masterpiece

Verse 17
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And now we're try   ing
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to sing it for you
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Hope the Bean and Eddie
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both would still approve
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There  we  go
We didn't mean to reminisce
You can surely bet
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That we won't forget
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'Cause we hear them yet
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Goodbye