Desafinado (Slightly Out Of Tune)

Words & Music by Newton Mendonca & Antonio Carlos Jobim

English words by Jon Hendricks & Jessie Cavanaugh
Recorded by Julie London, 1963
C CM7 CM7/6 CM7 D7-5
Love is like a never-ending melody;
Dm7 G7 G/Bb A7-9 A7
Poets have compared it to a symphony,
Dm7 G/Bb AM7 C#m7
A symphony conducted by the lighting of the moon--
Dm Dm+7 Dm7 Bb9 G7
But our song of love is slightly out of tune.
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Once your kisses raised me to a fever pitch;
Dm7 G7 G/Bb A7
Now the orchestration doesn't seem so rich.
Dm7 G/Bb AM7 C#m7
Seems to me you've changed the tune we used to sing;
Bridge:
Dm7 Bb9 Am7 B7
Like the bossa nova, love should swing.
E C#m7 C#m7-5 F#m7 B7
We used to harmonize, two souls in perfect time;
E C#m7 C#m7-5 F#m7 B7
Now the song is diff'rent and the words don't even rhyme,
F7 G Fdim Am7 D9
'Cause you forgot the melody our hearts would always croon,
Dm Dm+7 Dm7 Bb9 G7
And so what good's a heart that's slightly out of tune?
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Tune your heart to me the way it used to be;
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Join with me in harmony and sing a song of lov - ing.
FM7 Bb9 Em7 Cdim
We're bound to get in tune again before too long --
D7
There'll be no desafinado
Bb9 Dm7-5(V)
When your heart belongs to me com - plete - ly,
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So you won't be slightly out of tune,
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You'll sing along with me.
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