Skylark

Words & Music by Hoagy Carmichael & Johnny Mercer, 1941
Recorded by Linda Ronstadt on "Lush Life," 1984
Also Recorded by Mel Torme, 1949; Previously charted by Glenn Miller (Ray Eberle vocal), 1942 (#7)


 A6     Bm7 C#m7              D  alt      AM7   Bm7   C#m7       
Skylark,            have you anything to say to me?

          Cm7              Bm7     Bm7-5    E7
Won't you tell me where my love can be?

          E7sus4  E7      A     F#m7
Is there a meadow in the mist

        D       Cdim           E7                 
Where someone's waiting to be kissed?


E7sus4 A6     Bm7  C#m7         D alt          AM7         Bm7    C#m7
Oh,   skylark,         have you seen a valley green with spring

         Cm7              Bm7   Bm7-5   E7
Where my heart can go a-jour-ney-ing

        E7sus4   E7       A      F#m7
Over the shadows and the rain 

     Fdim     E7      A             
To a blossom-covered lane?


Bridge:

Em7 A7        DM7   C dim    Em7
And in your lonely flight,

            A7              DM7     Bm7     C#m7-5           
Haven't you heard the music in the night?

         F#m7-5             
Wonderful music, 

Bm          Bm7             Em7   Gdim   DM7
faint as a will o'the wisp, crazy  as a loon,

 G         D         A   Ab  A7   D     E7 
Sad as a gypsy ser-e-na-ding the moon.  Oh,



   A6     Bm7  C#m7          D alt            AM7        Bm7     C#m7       
Skylark,             I don't know if you can find these things,

       Cm7             Bm7     Bm7-5   E7 
But my heart is riding on your wings,

         Bm7-5      E7    A      F#m
So if you see them an-y-where,

         Bm7-5  E7    F#m    Cdim   Bm7-5   E7    AM7/6
Won't you lead  me   there?

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.