It Could Happen To You

Flexible songbook tune heard anywhere from ballad to medium up tempos

Composed by Jimmy Van-Heusen
Year 1944
Length 32 bars
Time 4/4
Form ABAC
Style Swing
Common Key Eb

Chords

Chord chart for the jazz standard It Could Happen To You

Lyrics

Hide your heart from sight,
Lock your dreams at night,
It could happen to you.

Don't count stars,
Or you might stumble.
Someone drops a sigh,
And down you'll tumble.

Keep an eye on spring,
Run when church bells ring.

It could happen to you.
All I did was wonder how your arms would be,
And it happened to me.

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