title: She Didn’t Say “Yes”
key: Jazz
harp type: Diatonic
genre: C
skill: Any

W: Otto Harbach
M: Jerome Kern
From: The Cats In The Cradle
Ella Fitzgerald
Key: C
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She did-n’t say yes She did-n’t say no
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She did-n’t say stay She did-n’t say go
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She on-ly knew that he had spied her there
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And then she knew he sat be-side her there
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At first there was heard not one lit-tle word
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Then coy-ly she took one sly lit-tle look
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And some-thing a-woke and smiled in-side
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Her heart be-gan beat-ing wild in-side
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So what did she do? I leave it to you
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She did just what you’d do too
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She did-n’t say yes She did-n’t say no
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They ver-y soon stood be-side his cha-teau
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They lin-gered like two poor waifs out-side
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For well she knew `twas on-ly safe out-side
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In there it was warm, out there it was cold
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The sleet and the storm said, “Bet-ter be bold”
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She mur-mured, “I’m not a-fraid of ice,
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I on-ly wish that I was made of ice”
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So what did she do? I leave it to you
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She did just what you’d do too
She didn’t say yes She didn’t say no
She wanted to stay But knew she should go
She wasn’t so sure that he’d be good
She wasn’t even sure that she’d be good
She wanted to rest
All cuddled and pressed
A palpable part of somebody’s heart
She’d love to be on rapport with him
But not behind a bolted door with him
And what did she do?
I leave it to you
She did just what you’d do too
She didn’t say yes She didn’t say no
For heaven was near She wanted it so
Above her sweet love was beckoning
And yet she knew there’d be a reckoning
She wanted to climb But dreaded to fall
So bided her time And clung to the wall
She wanted to act ad libitum
But feared to lose her equilibrium
So what did she do?
I leave it to you
She did just what you’d do tooa