You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)

Words & Music by Russ Columbo, Con Conrad, Gladys Dubois & Paul Gregory
Recorded by Nat King Cole, 1942*


B7         AM7             D9
I can't forget the night I met you,

      E7/9      A7      G#m7  C#7
That's all I'm thinking of;

    F#m7   Fdim(III)   F#m7
And now you  call   it madness,

B7  E A7       E   B7
But I call it love.


B7         AM7             D9
You made a promise to be faithful

E7/9      A7      G#m7  C#7
By all the stars above;

F#m7       Fdim(III)  F#m7
And now you  call it  madness,

E        A7       E    E7  
I still call it love.


Bridge:

Bm7-5       E7     Bm7-5            E7
My heart is beating, it keeps on repeating

A        C#7    A
For you constantly.

G#m7            C#7    G#m7         C#7
You're all I'm needing, and so I'm pleading,

F#m7         D9      B7
"Please come back to me!"


B7         AM7               D9
You made a plaything out of romance!

E7/9    A7          G#m7  C#7
What do you know of love?

F#m7      Fdim(III)      F#m7
That's why  you  call it madness,

B7  E A7       E   B7
But I call it love.


*If you haven't heard it, Diana Krall's version of this one on her 1995 Nat King Cole tribute album "All For You" is awesome - as is the whole CD.


 
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