They Say it's Spring

Words & Music by Marty Clark & Bob Haymes
Recorded by Blossom Dearie, 1957


Intro Verse:

     G     Cdim     C          Edim      G
When I was young I lived in a world of dreams

     G       Cdim           C          Edim      G
Of moods and myths and il - lu - sion - ar - y schemes

       Em                  B7
Though now I'm much more grown up

   Em              B7
I fear that I must own up

        D9               A7
To the fact that I'm in doubt of

         D9     Am7      D7/9
What the modern cynics shout of.


 G   G/E       Am7   D7  G   G/E      Am7 Cdim   D7
They say it's spring,   this feeling light as a feather;

     Em  Gdim  B7     Em           Gdim     B7
They say this thing, this magic we share together

 Am            Em       C   Cdim
Came with the weather, too.


G   G/E       Am7  D7  G     G/E     Am7 Cdim   D7
They say it's May     that's made me daft as a daisy;

     Em  Gdim  B7  B7/F# Em              Gdim     
It's May, they say,        that gave the whole world 

      B7    Am        Em    C   Cdim
This crazy, heavenly, hazy hue.

Bridge:

       F#7         B7
I'm a lark on the wing

         F#7       Gdim       F#7
I'm the spark of a firefly's fling

Fdim   C  Am Edim       G  E7
Yet to me,   this must be

          C    C/B    Am7       Am7/G  B7  Cdim  D7
Something more than a sea - son - al thing.


G    G/E      Am7  D7 G       G/E       Am7   Cdim   D7
Could it be spring,     those bells that I can hear ringing?

   Em  Gdim  B7  B7/F# Em             Gdim         B7
It may  be spring,       but when the robins stop singing

Cdim             Em      B7  
You're what I'm clinging to

Edim    G   G/E       Am7    Cdim  G  G-Fdim C-Cdim  G-G/B  Am7-Cdim
Though they say it's spring, it's you.


G   G/E  Am7  D7 G      G/E     Am7    Cdim        D7
If poets sing,     that when a heart's sym - pa - thet - ic

Em   Gdim    B7    B7/F# Em            Gdim            B7
It's merely spring,        then poets plights are pa - thet - ic

Am           Em    C  Cdim
Though I'm poetic too,      


G    G/E       Am7  D7 G   G/E       Am7    Cdim       D7
They say it's spring -- for lovers, there's where the lure is,

Em   Gdim   B7 B7/F# Em                Gdim            B7
That evil thing         for which Sep - tem - ber the cure is,

Am             Em      C  Cdim
This they are sure is true;

Bridge 2:

         F#7            B7
Though I know that it's so 

         F#7      Gdim         F#7
That my fancy may turn in the spring,

Fdim      C   Am Edim     G   E7
With the right   one in sight

         C  C/B      Am7 Am7/G     B7  Cdim  D7
One can find a per - pet - u - al thing.


G  G/E      Am7  D7 G     G/E      Am7 Cdim       D7
Did I need spring     to bring the ring that you bought me?

Em     Gdim      B7  B7/F# Em                Gdim          B7
Thought it was spring         that marvelous day that you caught me,

Cdim          Em       B7  
Darling, I thought we knew,

Edim  G  G/E     Am7    Cdim  G  G-Fdim C-Cdim  G-G/B  Am7-Cdim G6
That it wasn't spring, 'twas you.


*Requested by recent visitor Roger Marchese, who also provided a lyric transcription.

Blossom Dearie (and yes, that is her real name) has such a little girl voice and unpretentious delivery that you begin listening to her music with the feeling that you're being set up for a punchline at some point -- but the punchline never comes. I found this song growing on me very quickly, and have sought out a number of her other recordings since hearing this one.



 
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