Stompin' At The Savoy

Words & Music by Benny Goodman, Edgar Samson, Andy Razaf & Chick Webb
Recorded by The Ink Spots*, 1936


Intro: | G  Gdim | D  B7 | Em7  A7 | D - (to verse) |

A7/6 Dalt             Em7  Fdim    D6
Sav - oy, the home of sweet ro - mance,

A7    DM7             Em7 Fdim  D6
Sav - oy, it wins you with a  glance,

Fdim(III) A7              Em7 G/B  A7  Edim D6    Cdim  Em7 - G/B  A7
    Sav - oy, gives happy feet a chance to dance.


A7/6 Dalt             Em7    Fdim  D6
Your form just like a cling - ing vine,

A7    DM7              Em7 Fdim D6
Your lips so warm and sweet as wine,

Fdim(III) A7               Em7 G/B  A7  Edim   D     Gdim   D D9
  Your  cheek so soft and close to mine, di - vine.


Bridge:

G7     G#7      G7        C        Gm7      C9      C    
How my heart is singing, while the band is swing - ing,

F7     F#7      F7           Bb               A7 
Never tired of romping, and stomping with you at the Savoy.


A7/6 Dalt            Em7  Fdim    D6
What joy!  A perfect hol - i - day,

A7    DM7               Em7 Fdim  D6
Sav - oy, where we can glide and sway,

Fdim(III) Em7         G/B      A7  
  Sav  -  oy, let me stomp a - way 

A6/7/9  D   G   D  D9  D D7  G  Gdim D  B7  Em7 G/B  A7 A7/6  D
 With  you.

* This version probably doesn't sound like anybody's recorded version, in part because I listened through so many in trying to figure out how to play it. I settled on The Ink Spots' version for credit purposes largely because so many of the others seem bent on setting unnecessary speed records.

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.