Willie Nelson - Blue Skies guitar chord

Blue Skies

Words & Music by Irving Berlin, 1923

Recorded by Willie Nelson, 1978*

chords:

B+ : 021003

G6 : 320000

Em B+ Em7 A7

Blue skies..... smiling at me,

G D7 G B7

Nothing but blue skies....do I see.

Em B+ Em7 A7

Bluebirds......singin' a song,

G D7 G

Nothing but blue skies....from now on

BRIDGE

G G6 Cm G

Never saw the sun shining so bright,

C G D G

Never saw things going so right.

G G6 Cm G

Noticing the days hurrying by,

C G B7 Em B+

When you're in love, my, how they fly.

VERSE

Em B+ Em7 A7

Blue days,...all of them gone

G D7 G B7

Nothing but blue skies....from now on.

INSTRUMENTAL THROUGH ALL VERSES AND BRIDGE (IN FULL)

REPEAT VOCALLY

Em B+ Em7 A7

Blue skies..... smiling at me,

G D7 G B7

Nothing but blue skies....do I see.

Em B+ Em7 A7

Blue days,...all of them gone

G D7 G B7

Nothing but blue skies....from now on.

REPEAT VOCALLY ( AGAIN)

Em B+ Em7 A7

Blue skies....smiling at me,

G D7 G B7

Nothing but blue skies....do I see.

Em B+ Em7 A7

Blue days,...all of them gone

G D7 G B7

Nothing but blue skies....from now on.

REPEAT VOCALLY (AGAIN) AND END

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* Willie Nelson's #1 country hit in 1978 was but the latest in a long series of successful

versions of this standard. Introduced in the 1927 musical "Betsy" by Belle Baker, it

reached the charts no less than six times that year -- by Ben Selvin (#1); George Olsen

(#2); Vincent Lopez (#9); Johnny Marvin and Ed Smalle (also #9); Harry Richman (# 13);

and Vaughn Deleath. It Charted in 1941 by Johnny Long (#22), then again in 1946 by

both Count Basie (#8) and Benny Goodman (#9).

tab reworked for simplicity by: nemo