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One For My Baby
(And One More For The Road)
Words & Music by Johnny Mercer & Harold ArlenRecorded by Frank Sinatra, 1958
D D9 D Am7
It's quar - ter to three,
D D9 D Dsus4 Am Am7 D D9 D Am7
There's no one in the place ex - cept you and me,
D D9 D Am7 D D9 D Dsus4 Am Am7
So, set 'em up, Joe, I got a lit - tle sto - ry
D D9 D Am7 D DM7 D7
You oughta know.
G F7 G F7 Em7 D A7 G/B B7
We're drinkin', my friend, to the end of a brief ep - i - sode --
G G/F# Em7 G G/F# G/B A7 D
Make it one for my baby and one more for the road.
G Dm6
I got the routine,
G Dm6 Am7 G Dm6 G Dm6
So drop an - oth - er nick - el in the mach - ine;
G Dm6 G Am7 Dm6
I feel kind - a bad, wish you'd make the mu - sic
G Dm6 G GM7 G7 G6
Pret - ty and sad.
C C9 C C9 Am7 G Am7 Edim E7
Could tell you a lot, but it's not in the gen - tle - man's code,
A7 Em7 A7 C Em7 Edim Am7 G
So, make it one for my baby and one more for the road.
Bridge:
Am7 C9 Am7 D9
You'd never know it but buddy, I'm a kind of poet,
G GM7 G7
And I got a lot of things to say;
Am7 C9 C C/B Am7
And when I'm gloomy, you gotta listen to me
E7 Em7 A7
Till it's all talked away.
G Dm6
Well that's how it goes,
G Dm6 Am7 G Dm6 G Dm6
And Joe, I know you're gettin' pretty anx -ious to close;
D Dm6
So, thanks for the cheer,
G Dm6 Am7 G Dm6 G GM7 G7
I hope you did - n't mind my bendin' your ear.
C C9 Am7 G/B Am7 G Am7 Edim E7
This torch that I found must be drowned or it soon might ex - plode,
A7 Em7 A7 C Em7 Edim Am7 E7 F7 E7
So, make it one for my baby and one more for the road,
A7 Edim Am7 G#7 G Am7 A7 D9 Am7 G
That long, long road.
This is one I've wanted to do for a long time -- and had, in fact, tried to do before, but unsuccessfully. Then a certain friend of mine, of Canadian extraction, threw down the gauntlet . I'm glad he did. I must admit, I no longer play it the way this chart suggests -- I've developed an expanded version I really enjoy playing -- but this one is truer to the original that people would be familiar with, so it's the one I'm posting. If you are looking for a more exact replication of Sinatra's original, you would need to modulate to the key of F# at the end of the first verse. I don't. I play it as you see it here, and nobody seems to object.