There's A Small Hotel

Words & Music by Lorenz Hart & Richard Rodgers
Recorded by Benny Goodman, 1936
From "On Your Toes"


  DM7  D6  DM7  D    D6      A7 DM7     D   D9
There's a small ho - tel with a wish - ing well, 

  Em7      Em7sus4      A7   A   DM7/9  Bm7  G6  Edim
I wish that  we   were there to - geth - er;

 DM7   D6 DM7   D    D6         A7  DM7     D   D9
There's a bri - dal suite, one room bright and neat, 

       Em7     Em7sus4   A7   A    Am7    D9  Am7  D7
Com - plete for  us  to share to - geth - er.


Bridge:

G          Em       Am7   D7
Looking through the win - dow, 

        G6    Edim       Am7    B7
You can see a dis - tant stee - ple

Em     B7     Em    B7      C   Em  Bbm7-5 A7
Not a sign of peo - ple -- who wants peo - ple?


DM7  D6   DM7    D   D6         A7    DM7     D    D9
When the stee - ple bell says, "Good night, sleep well," 

      Em7      Em7sus4     A7   A    Am7    D9  Am7  D7
We'll thank the small ho - tel to - geth - er.


Coda:

       GM7       G6     G/B       Edim
We'll creep in - to our lit - tle shell, 

   Em7     Em7sus4     A7         A  A9   D9   Fdim(III)  G/B  Edim  D6
And we will thank the small ho - tel to - geth - er.


If you're familiar with the Benny Goodman version, then know know that Helen Ward didn't sing any coda. But I found the lyric for it on the 'Net and took some rather large liberties with what it might have sounded like if Goodman had let her sing an ending.


 
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