UNBEARABLY BLUE
                                   ( G. Vannelli )

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This is a great torchy dreamy song which deserves far more recognition than it does. Again, some chord shapes here can be tortuous on guitar. One can easily insert less complicated substitutions.


Gmaj13/D           Bbmaj7/D       Abmaj7/D
Russian blue, yeah russian blue

     Gmaj9/D         Bbmaj7/D    D7-9+9
Like sapphire in the sun

    Gmaj9/D       F#7sus4  F#7
She taunted me so tender   ly

     Ebmaj7/F  F13   Em11   Bb7+11
What speck of  logic I po   sse-e-e-ess

    A11         D7-9+9   Ebmaj7-5
Was hard on the run

  Gmaj13/D             Bbmaj7/D       Abmaj7/D
I begged myself, don't give an inch

      Gmaj13/D          Bbmaj7/D    Gbmaj7addC
Don't wrestle with them eyes

    Gmaj7/D           F#11   F#7
One fatal glance, one look askance

Ebmaj9/F  F13    Em11
Will only end in sorrow

C/Bb     A11       Ebmaj7-5  Eb6-5
Oh, dear boy, be advised

         Gmaj7/D        G7-9/D
You're a happy man, and happy man

            Cmaj7/D
Resist what fools might do

                  Gmaj7/D              Db7+9/D
Yeah, right, such noble words would be wise

   Cmaj9/D        Cm6
If only they were true

            Db13-5     C/Bb    B/A   Bb/Ab    F#7+9+5
 'Cause her ey-y-y   eys are so un bearably   blue


trumpet with orchestra:


Gmaj9/D          Bbmaj7/D           Gmaj9/D            Bbmaj7/D Cm7
1        2       3          4       1        2         3         4


Bbmaj9           Gbmaj9             Bbmaj9   Ab9       Gbmaj9   Fm7
1        2        3         4       1         2         3         4


Ebm9     Fm7      Dbmaj7/Gb C7+9   Fmaj7              B7-9+5
1        2        3         4        1        2         3         4


Emaj9/B          Gmaj7/B            Emaj7               Gmaj7/B   Bb9
1        2       3          4       1        2          3         4


Am9      Bm7     Gmaj7/C    F#7+9   Bmaj9              D7+9+5    D7-9+5
1        2       3          4       1        2         3         4

    Gmaj13/D            Bbmaj7/D         Gb/D  Ab/D  A/D
Now ain't I smart, so insufferably smart

Gmaj9/D                  Bbmaj7/D              D7+9-9
        Why it leaves me           stupe fied

    Gmaj9/D           F#7sus4  F#7
The face is flush, my mind is  mush


  Ebmaj7/F  F13      Em11
I oughta    cut and  run

    C/Bb  A11            Ebmaj7-5   Eb6-5
But all I do is slip and slide

         Gmaj7/D     G7-9/D
Seems my body and my soul

                Cmaj7/D          Bm7/D   Cmaj7/D  Cm6/D
Got conflicting points of view

                Gmaj7/D     Db7+9/D
Now then, which master do I serve

   Cmaj7/D      Cm6/D
If I only knew

       Db/B    C/Bb     B/A   Bb/Ab    F#7+9+5
'Cause he-e-er eyes are so un bearably blue

 trumpet with orchestra:


Gmaj9/D           Bbmaj7/D          Gmaj9/D           Bbmaj7/D
1        2        3        4        1        2        3        4



Gmaj7/D           F#7sus4 F#7       Ebmaj7/F         Em11
1        2        3        4        1        2        3        4



Ebmaj7           Bb/D              Cm9                Db/B
1        2        3        4        1        2        3        4



C/Bb              B/A              A11                D13
1        2        3        4        1        2        3        4



           *Bbmaj9+5/G
Unbearably blue


*a D7/G is pretty close

thanks to Andrew T. for all the legwork on this transcription-
   ..Peter Kruger  casparus50@yahoo.ca