(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons

Words & Music by Deek Watson & William Best
Recorded by Nat "King" Cole*, 1946 (#1 for 6 weeks)


A7+5 D       D9 G      A7        A7+5       D        D9   G
I   love you      for sen - ti - men -  tal reasons

  F#7             Bm       Bm+7   G
I hope you do believe me

     A7       A7+5   D    Cdim   Em7   A7
I'll give you  my  heart


A7+5 D       D9 G     A7   A7+5      D            D9   G
I  love you      and you alone were meant for me

F#7                      Bm      Bm+7   G
Please give your loving heart to me

    A7       A7+5   D     Gdim   D  D7
And say we'll never part



Bridge:

  Em7          A7    D         D9
I think of you every morning

Em7          A7    D         D9
Dream of you every night

Em7      A7         D         D9
Darling, I'm never lonely

    G    Em7         A7
Whenever you are in sight


A7+5 D       D9 G      A7        A7+5       D        D9   G
I   love you      for sen - ti - men -  tal reasons

  F#7             Bm       Bm+7   G
I hope you do believe me

     A7       A7+5   D    Cdim   Em7   A7   A7+5   D6
I'll give you  my  heart

*This song has been recorded often, and has often charted. Within one year of Cole's version reaching number one, it was recorded successfully by Dina Shore and Eddie Howard (both reached #2), by Charlie Spivak (#5), by Ella Fitzgerald (#8) and by Art Kassell (#15.) It was revived in 1958 when Sam Cooke reached (#17).

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.