CHANGING MY TUNE 
(Music: George Gershwin / Lyrics: Ira Gershwin)

Judy Garland - 1946
Dick Haymes - 1946
Artie Shaw & His Orch. (vocal: Mel Torme & The Mel-Tones) - 1946
Vaughn Monroe & His Orch. (vocal: Vaughn Monroe & Betty Norton) - 1946
Larry Clinton & His Orch. - 1946
Betty Grable (feat. in the film "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim") - 1947
Ted Heath & His Music (Instr.) - 1955
Barbara Cook & Anthony perkins - 1966
Cynthia Crane - 1997


As performed by BETTY GRABLE
in the 1947 film "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim":

Yesterday the skies were black and I was blue
Yesterday, alas alack, I thought I was through
But knock on wood, my job looks good
And having found a dwelling
My happiness is beyond the telling

Castles were crumbling and daydreams were tumbling
December was battling with June
But on this bright afternoon
Guess I’ll be changing my tune

Kept on despairing beyond any caring
If I jumped out of a balloon
But I’m arranging from now
To be changing my tune

At last the skies are bright and shiny
It’s a human world once more
Yesterday’s troubles are tiny
What were you worried for 

Wanted a permit to make me a hermit
To grumble and glare at the moon
But I’m arranging from now
To be changing my tune

At last the skies are bright and shiny
It’s a human world once more
Yesterday’s troubles are tiny
What was I worried for

Wanted a permit to make me a hermit
To grumble and glare at the Moon
But I’m arranging from now
To be changing my tune

No more the feeling that my world is reeling
No fearing I'll fall in a swoon
Problems are all picayune
That's why I'm changing my tune

Out like a sailor adrift on a whaler
A-sailing into a typhoon
But I’m arranging from now
To be changing my tune

Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm and shiny

It’s a human world once more
Yesterday’s troubles are tiny
What was I worried for

No more resentment, I’m full of contentment
Afloat on a dreamy lagoon
And I’m arranging from now
To be changing my tune


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - March 2017)