Key: G minor
Verse 1
G#m
C#m
F#
I heard you call
for an all star band
D#m
F#
It's something new for
the music stand
G#
It's on the way,
C#m
F#
C#
but before we start
G#
F#
A cuttin' capers around your heart
Verse 2
G#m
F#
You're gonna cheer when
you hear this band
G#m
F#m
E
There's never been a better crew
E#dim
And when you hear the drummer
G#m
G#
Lawdy, how the joint'll hum
C#m
D#m
D#
G#m
A cuttin' capers just for you
F#
G#m
F#
You'll never pick about
Verse 3
or pick a quarr'l
G#
F#
With Mister Krupa or with Frankie Carle
C#m
G#
You'll never dig a list of
C#m
G#
bigger names
C#
F#
A cuttin' capers with Harry James
Verse 4
F#
With Benny Goodman and his clarinet
D#dim
F#m
C#m
E
And Tommy Dorsey's in it, too
E#dim
Alvino Rey will star
D#
G#m
A walkin' talkin' steel guitar
C#m
C#
F#
D#m
G#m
F#
A cut tin' capers just for you
Verse 5
G#m
Listen to that tenor saxophone
Never heard it played with
F#m
C#m
G#
such a tone
C#m
F#
And when you get that lic'rish stick
D#m
D#
G#m
Out in the woodshed, son
G#
D#m
Ddim
Why it's Papa Benny
Verse 6
D#m
Goodman
D#
Ddim
C#
And he's showin' ya quick
C#m
F#
C#m
F#
How the proper lic'rish
C#
stickin's done
D#m
(Too root, dah roo, ta, doo doo)
G#m
Listen to that
Verse 7
fiddle player slap, slap, slap
F#
G#
G#m
Boy, he plays it, he really lays it,
E
A
in your lap, lap, lap
C#m
E
E#dim
Say, I'll bet before
they're through
C#
F#m
C#
You'll be cuttin' capers, too
(Doo doo, doo doo,
E
E#dim
roo doo)
Verse 8
E#dim
G#m
G#
C#
D#m
(Do rah
G#
C#
F#
G#
D#m
D#
G#
C#
F#
G#
C#
F#
F#m
G#
A#
D#m
G#
C#
G#
C#
do)
Verse 9
C#
Cuttin' capers 'cause
F#
I'm out with you
C#
F#
Nothin' else that I'm about to do
D#m
My heart begins to flutter like a dove
D#
I even stutter
G#
C#
(Guess, it's love)
Verse 10
I'm cuttin' capers so
F#
you'll notice me
C#
When we're together,
F#
can't you see
Gdim
I'm only blowin' off
D#
A#
A talkin' big, a showin' off
D#m
A cut tin' capers
Verse 11
G#
'cause it's true
D#m
Dee dah, dee dah, ooh, ooh, ooh
Baby, I'm in love (Baby, I'm in love)
Verse 12
D#m
Baby, I'm
G#
in love with
D#m
G#
(Baby, I'm in love with)
D#m
G#
D#m
Edim
Baby, I'm in love with
D#
D#m
D#dim
C#
A#m
C#
you
F#
C#
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