Nice Work If You Can Get It

Words & Music by Ira & George Gershwin
Recorded by Fred Astaire, 1938 (#1
From the 1937 film "A Damsel In Distress"


G        G9      B7
Holdin' hands at midnight

 Em      B+     Cm7
'Neath a starry sky --

 G   G/F#        Em          G/B
Nice work if you can get it,

            Am7    D9      G     D7
And you can get it if you try.


G         G9       B7
Strollin' with the one girl,

Em      B+          Cm7
Sighin' sigh after sigh --

 G   G/F#        Em          G/B
Nice work if you can get it,

            Am7    D9      G
And you can get it if you try.



Bridge:


 Em   B+      Cm7    Em             Am      B7
Just imagine someone waiting at the cottage door

 A7       Em7       A7         Em7
Where two hearts become one --

          Am7     Cdim      D7    
Who could ask for anything more?


G       G9      B7
Loving one who loves you,

Em       B+          Cm7
And then takin' that vow --

 G   G/F#             Em     G/B
Nice work if you can get it,

           Am7     D9    Am7 Cdim Am7 G
And if you get it, won't you tell me how?

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