One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) Cover

Made famous by Frank Sinatra and later covered by a variety of artists including Robbie Williams. I made a quick "test" version of this a few months ago but thought it was time to record the full song properly! Hope you like it.

One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
Words and music by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen

Its quarter to three,
Theres no one in the place cept you and me
So set em up joe
I got a little story I think you oughtta know

Were drinking my friend
To the end of a brief episode
So make it one for my baby
And one more for the road

I know the routine
Put another nickel in that there machine
Im feeling so bad
Wont you make the music easy and sad

I could tell you a lot
But you gotta to be true to your code
So make it one for my baby
And one more for the road

Youd never know it
But buddy Im a kind of poet
And Ive got a lot of things I wanna say
And if Im gloomy, please listen to me
Till its all, all talked away

Well, thats how it goes
And joe I know youre gettin anxious to close
So thanks for the cheer
I hope you didnt mind
My bending your ear

But this torch that I found
Its gotta be drowned
Or it soon might explode
So make it one for my baby
And one more for the road

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• my
• baby
• frank
• sinatra
• piano
• cover

[shmrck1]

Nice! Do you have it written down? I'd like to learn how to play it like that.

[WayneJoyce1973]

Hi - don't have it written down exactly as I play it there. I do have some sheet music where I got a couple of the more complex chords from that I couldn't work out on my own.

But mainly I derived the piano arrangement having listened extensively to the Frank Sinatra and Robbie Williams versions of the songs and just used the bits I liked from each ;)

Best advice I can give you is to get the general chords and then mess around with an arrangement that works for your own playing style.

[willmcphail4]

Wonderful my man! 

[RINGOFE]

very good!!

[BetsyChu72]

You're great.

[emilyweber23]

would you please please do a tutorial for this?? everyone else's version sucks!

[daniellewilce]

Your voice makes me melt.

[pccalcio]

great work! one advice.. too much echo on your microphone.

keep on rockin'!!

[bub456wh]

That was a beauty of a cover. if you worked most out yourself, ever thought about doing a tutorial for this. I know loads a of people that would prob love to play this.

[hariel]

Great!

[Morisson555]

thats very good!

[innerchi88]

Great stuff mate, nice voice!  Lovely arrangement!