After You Get What you Want
You Don’t Want What You Wanted At All
Key: F
Tempo: 160 BPM
Words and Music by Irving Berlin
Copyright 1920

Chords and lyrics provided by Judy Muldawer
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File Created 11/20/2014
File Edited 11/23/2020

Verse 1:

F            C7    F
Listen to me honey dear
                       C7    F
Something’s wrong with you I fear
C7
It’s getting harder to please you
F          G7          C7
Harder and harder each year

F               C7       F
I don’t want to make you blue
A7                     Dm
But you need a talking to
G7
Like a lot of people I know
              G7sus2G7   C7 C7+5
Here’s what’s wrong with you

Chorus:

F     Cdim Gm7          C7
After  you get what you want
          F
You don’t want it
                  C7
If I gave you the moon
                       F   C7
You’d grow tired of it soon

       C7+5   F
You’re like a baby
CdimGm7           C7            Dm
You want what you want when you want it
          G7
But after you are presented
     C7                   C7+5
With what you want you’re discontented

F         Cdim Gm7         C7
You’re al ways wishing and wanting
    F
for something
                      C7
When you get what you want
                        F  F7
You don’t want what you get

               Bb          Bbmin6
And though you sit upon my knee
F                    E7
You’ll grow tired of me
Ddim  F     Cdim Gm7          C7
Cause after  you get what you want
          G7            C7        F  C7
You don’t want what you wanted at all

Verse 2:

F                 C7      F
Don’t you say that I’m un kind
              C7        F
Think it over and you’ll find
C7
You’ve got a changeable nature
F             G7                C7
You’re always changing your mind

F                 C7      F
There’s a longing in your eye
A7                   Dm
That is hard to satisfy
G7
You’re unhappy most of the time
           G7sus2G7C7 C7+5
Here’s the rea why

Chorus:

F     Cdim Gm7          C7
After  you get what you want
          F
You don’t want it
                  C7
If I gave you the moon
                       F   C7
You’d grow tired of it soon

       C7+5   F
You’re like a baby
CdimGm7           C7            Dm
You want what you want when you want it
          G7
But after you are presented
     C7                   C7+5
With what you want you’re discontented

F         Cdim Gm7         C7          F
You’re al ways wishing and wanting for something
                      C7
When you get what you want
                        F  F7
You don’t want what you get

               Bb          Bbmin6
And though you sit upon my knee
F                    E7
You’ll grow tired of me
Ddim  F     Cdim Gm7          C7
Cause after  you get what you want
          G7            C7        F  C7F
You don’t want what you wanted at all

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