Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most

Words & Music by Fran Landesman & Tommy J. Wolf, Jr.
Recorded by Bette Midler, 1990


     A      F#m    D9  E7      Dm6
     Once I was a sentimental thing;

      A       F#m    D9  E7     AM7
     Threw my heart away each spring.

     Fdim            AM7  Cdim  Bm7-5   AM7
     Now a spring romance hasn't got a chance.

     D9      Bm7-5      AM7 C#m7-5  F#m7
     Promised my first dance  to    winter --

     D9      Bm7-5    E7    A   B7     D9  D6 Dm6  Fdim   E7   
     All I've got to show's a splinter for my lit - tle fling.

  A         D9       C#m7    Dalt
Spring this year has got me feeling

 AM7               D9  Bm7-5      AM7   C#m7-5
Like a horse that never left the post.

  DM7       D6           Dm+7       Dm6
I lie in my room, staring up at the ceiling.

 D9        Bm7-5   E      Bm7-5    AM7
Spring can really hang you up the most.


  A       Bm7         C#m7    Dalt
Morning's kiss wakes trees and flowers,

AM7              D9     Bm7-5    AM7   C#m7-5
And to them I'd like to drink a toast.

      DM7         D6           A         C#m7-5 B7
But I walk in the park just to kill the lonely hours;

D9        Bm7-5   E      Bm7-5    AM7
Spring can really hang you up the most.


     Gdim      A        Gdim  G        A
     All afternoon the birds twitter-twitt.

     Gdim        A               Gdim   G       A
     I know the tune -- "This Is Love, This Is It."

     Am7   G     A         Am7     G         A
     Heard it before, and don't I know the score;

      E        C#m7-5        A          B7
     And I've decided that spring is a bore.


E           A9    AM7           D9
Love seems sure around the new year;

AM7     C#m7-5   D9     Bm7-5   AM7   C#m7-5
Now it's April, love is just a ghost.

C#7      DM7      D6  Dm6    A    C#m7-5   B7
Spring arrived on time, only what became of you, dear?

D9         Bm7-5   E      Bm7-5   C#m7-5   F#7
Spring can really hang you up the most.

D9         Bm7-5   E      Bm7-5    AM7
Spring can really hang you up the most.

     Gdim          A      Gdim   G         A
     Love came my way, I thought it would last.

     Gdim        A           Gdim G       A
     We had our day, now it's all in the past.

     Am7     G     A      Am7    G      A
     Spring came along, a sea - son of song,

      E          C#m7-5         A              B7
     Full of sweet promise, but something went wrong.

E       A9       AM7       D9
Doctors once prescribed a tonic;

AM7   C#m7-5  D9    Bm7-5    AM7   C#m7-5
Sulfur and  molasses was the dose.

C#7    DM7      D6     Dm6    D              B7
Didn't help one bit -- my condition must be chronic.

D9         Bm7-5   E      Bm7-5   C#m7-5   F#7
Spring can really hang you up the most.


 D9   AM7       D9      AM7
All alone, the party is over.

D9       Dm6   AM7   C#m7-5    B7
Old man winter was a gracious host.

Cdim     DM7      Dm6    A    C#7              F#7
But when you keep praying for snow to hide the clover,

D9     D   E7/6   E7 Bbm9     E7 Fdim AM7
Spring can real - ly hang you up the most.


*Requested by recent visitor Chris Larkin.


 
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