Close to You

Words & Music by Al Hoffman, Carl Lampl & Jerry Livingston
Recorded by Frank Sinatra, 1957


 D    A7 G   G/F#  Em7 A7     Gdim      D    G   D
Close to you,          I will always stay;

 DM7  D  Em7   A7             Edim   Bm7  D7
Close to you,    though you're far away.

       G5         G   Gm7    
You'll always be near     

   Gdim             D  F#m    Bm
As though you were here by my side.

E  Bm7-5    D9  Bm7-5      A         F#m      A7+5
No matter where,  in  my dreams I'll find you there


  D   A7 G   G/F#  Em7   A7   Gdim     D    G   D
Close to me,           sharing your caress.

DM7    D  Em7  A7          Edim  Bm7  D7
Can't you see    you're my happiness?

    G5       G  G/F# Gm7    Edim   A7       D
Wherever you go,         my heart will go, too.

     A     B7
What can I do?

   G    G/F#    Gdim A7  A7/6  D
It only wants to be close to  you.


(Musical Interlude - First Half of Second Verse)

    G5       G   G/F# Gm7    Edim   A7       D
Wherever you go,          my heart will go, too.

     F#m   B7
What can I do?

   G    G/F#    Gdim A7  A7/6  D
It only wants to be close to  you.

*Sinatra recorded and released this song more than once, and I believe I've got a correct attribution here. He recorded it as a V-disc some in about 1942 or so, but the voice I hear in the recording from which I transcribed sounds more like the Sinatra of the 50s than the Sinatra of the early 40s. In trying to find out when the song was written, I ran across in intro verse; I'm not including it here, because I could not hear it to transcribe it, but let me know if you're interested and I'll send it along.

The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.