Blues in the Night
Words & Music by Johnny Mercer & Harold Arlen, 1941
Recorded by Rosemary Clooney, 1952 (#17)
Written for a film called Hot Nocturne, this song became so popular that the movie 
was re-titled Blues in the Night


A (x02220@1)
My mama done tol' me, when I was in kneepants,

                        A7My (x02020@1)mama done tol' me, "Son,

    D7A (xx0212@1)woman'll sweet talk, and give ya the big eye,

     B7 (x21202@1)     E7 (020130@1)           A (x02220@1)
But when the sweet talkin's done,

     E7 (020130@1)              Am7 (x02010@1)                    E7A (020130@1)woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya t' sing 

      A (x02220@1)  D9           AThe (x02220@1)blues      in the night."


Refrain:

A7 (x02020@1)                       E7 (020130@1)     Am7 (x02010@1)  D7Now (xx0212@1)the rain's a-fallin', hear the train a-callin',

  A"Whoo-ee." (x02220@1)(My mama done tol' me,)

   D9                      Dm6 (xx0201@1)               E7Hear (020130@1)that lonesome whistle blowin' 'cross the trestle,

  A"Whoo-ee." (x02220@1)(My mama done tol' me.)

   E7A (020130@1)whoo-ee-duh whoo-ee,

     B7 (x21202@1)                E7 (020130@1)              A (x02220@1) D9        AOl' (x02220@1)clickety clack's a-echoin' back  the blues   in the night.



            D9                  Dm6The (xx0201@1)evening breeze'll start the trees to cryin'

E7 (020130@1)     C7 (x32310@1)              B+       F#7-5    Am6 (x02212@1) B7 (x21202@1)E7 (020130@1)     Dm6 (xx0201@1)E7And (020130@1)the moon'll hide it's light when you get the blues in the night;

  D9                      Dm6 (xx0201@1)   E7 (020130@1)     C7 (x32310@1)             B+
Take my word, the mockingbird'll sing the saddest kind of song,

  F#m7-5            Am6 (x02212@1)         B7 (x21202@1)      E7 (020130@1)     Dm6 (xx0201@1)  Gm6 (3x5353@1)    E7He (020130@1)knows things are wrong, and he's right.



From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to Saint Joe,
Wherever the four winds blow;
I've been in some big towns and heard me some big talk,
But there is one thing I know:
A woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya t' sing 
The blues in the night.

Refrain:

Coda:
 A (x02220@1)                 A7 (x02020@1)   B7 (x21202@1)              E7 (020130@1)Oooo  -  oooo   -  oooo, oooo  -  oooo   -  oooo,

     B7 (x21202@1)                  E7sus4 (020200@1)       A (x02220@1)My mama was right, there's blues in the night.