My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time

Words & Music by Manny Curtis & Vic Mizzy
Recorded by Les Brown Orchestra, Doris Day Vocal, 1945 (#1)
Introduced by Marion Hutton in the film "In Society"


A      D  D9alt D   D9
Well, what do  you know, 

A7  D9   D6/9 D  DM7 D7   G          G/B 
He smiled at  me in  my dreams last night -

    A7                G     Gdim      D
My dreams are getting better all the time.

A      D D9alt D   D9
And, what  do you know, 

A7  D9   D6/9 D DM7 D7  G        G/B 
He smiled at me in  a  dif'rent light -

    A7                G      A7        D  Gdim  D  D7
My dreams are getting better all the time.


Bridge:

   G6                 G/B                     
To think that we were strangers 

   D6               B7
A couple of nights ago;

    E7             D9
And though it's a dream, 

  A7      E7         A    A9 A  Asus4  A7  
I never dreamed he'd ev - er say hel - lo.


A    D  D9alt D     D9    A7  D9   D6/9  D  
Oh, may - be  to - night I'll hold  him tight 

DM7   D7   G        G/B
When the moonbeams shine -

    A7                G      A7        D
My dreams are getting better all the time.

If ever this was proof that a song had the capacity to crawl in your head a stay there -- invited or not -- I would nominate this one. Though it did reach number one in 1945, it's rarely heard these days, in any form -- even on the oldies radio stations. I stumbled across it while looking for other songs, and happened to have it playing while I continued my search. I'll be doggoned if the melody didn't set up residence in my head.

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.