I’m 26 years old and this is one of my favorite songs ever. Sinatra’s brilliant story telling in full effect here. A song about him alone in a bar with the bartender(Joe) I always see the song as a conversation, or a call and response, between Sinatra and the piano. The piano being Joe, the bartender. Just genius. Love when Sinatra is in this mood. Ties into that summer wind lyric “and still are days those lonely days they go on and on”. Where in one for my baby he’s alone in a bar late at night. “It’s quarter to 3, there’s no one in the place”. Genius

Thanks for sharing mr. Burt, keeps fantastic tunes alive and teaches them forward!! Much appreciated

Thanks so much for sharing this. This helps me learn to play this song and learn to recgonize these beautiful chords in this kind of tunes. I heard it first time in the Sinatra album of Robbie Williams and tried to find it al out by myself. You helped me a lot in understanding what is going on. The remarques on the video help a lot as well. Thanks.!

Great job! I love this song! Thanks for sharing ( this is the greatest Sinatra's "drunk songs" )

Hi you help me a lot, i love this song too its pure magic

Your domain of harmony is absolutely awesome!

Damn that piano has a juicy tone

Thank you

Mind blown

Great tutorial , thank you .I have actually just bought a transcription of the accompaniment from another youtuber -not sure if I am allowed to advertise it here ....he does not write in the tune though so I have been trying to sing it at the same time , tricky .

Thank you David fantastic. Help needed please, I'm trying to find out the song from the film Young at Heart where Barney (Frank)sits down at the piano to rearrange Alex's compositions. Is it Bill Miller playing in the film ? as the intro when Doris Day walks in from the kitchen and admires his playing makes my hair stand up every time I hear it. This intro I am trying to find the sheet music in a hope that one day I may be able to play it. Thanks Phil

this is so helpful

This is the most beautiful “saloon” song there is. Might I ask if you have sheet music for this arrangement? And is it the original?

The timing at the Gm to C7 to F is throwing me. What am I missing?

Okay, I found what you were looking at, the ii, V, into the short lived key of F. The bar that sets up the key change, that is C, moving to Gm, I made into 5/4 time. Two beats on C and three beats on Gm. Next bar two beats on Gm and beats 3 and 4 on C7, taking you into F. A little unorthodox approach but I felt I needed the extra beat. I also try to avoid crossing a bar line without a change of harmony, but here I broke my own rule. I’ve come across the odd occasion when a composer will add an extra beat or two for no apparent reason, and magically the music seems to flow better for it, but not in all cases, You might decide for yourself to you play C, for the entire bar with the next bar split between Gm & C7, setting up the key change. That is certainly a viable alternative which has been used.. Good for you to pickup the difference ,.

I want to start learning piano, any good suggestions on how to learn?

Are you still willing to email the sheet music of this?

What do you make of the fact that the man who tells the story is a "kind of poet" who's "got a lot of things to say"; but although he could "tell you a lot", he doesn't, because he's got to be "true to your code" ? It's a strange contradiction at the heart of this marvelous, moving song.

It would be so helpful if you identified the notes in talking about everything from the 4 chord on…lots of glare on the keyboard and it is hard to se where you and putting your fingers.

Thanks for your address. I’ll be sending you an a email shortly.

Maybe see the Bb7 as a tritone substitution for an E7 chord rather than a modulation into Eb? Either is technically correct, but I think seeing it this way makes a lot more sense with the Bm7 as it then forms a kind of ii-V in the key of A, which the song has been in for the previous few bars after it modulates from E.

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