This Is All I Ask(Chords)

	        
Intro: Verse 

G7 C     Edim      Dm7         G7 
As I approach the prime of my life 
  Dm7    G7       Cdim         C 
I find I have the time of my life 
C/B          F           Fdim  
Learning to enjoy at my leisure  
Em      B7      Edim 
All the simple pleasures 
F        G           C     E7  
And so I happily concede 
A7     Cm5-/7 A7 Dm7 Dm5-/7 G7   
This is all  I  ask  
Dm7     G7  Fdim C Edim Dm7 
This is all  I  need 

Melody 

G7     Am7  G/B  C   Am  Edim            Gdim    
Beautiful       girls,   walk a little slower  
Dm7     Fdim   G7 C  
When you walk  by me 
G7     Am7  G/B  C7 
Lingering       sunsets,     
Dm    Am       Dm6   B7         C7M   Am7 B7 
Stay a little longer   with the lonely sea 
Cdim     B7    Em    B5+                Em7           
Children everywhere, when you shoot at bad men 
Em6      A7  Em7 A7 
Shoot at me 
Am7    Am5-/7      D7         Am7    D7                                   
Take me to that strange, enchanted land  
Dm7        Am7  Em5-/7  G7/13- 
Grown-ups seldom understand 
G7    Am7   G/B  C       Am  Edim           Gdim    
Wandering       rainbows,    leave a bit of color 
Dm7    Fdim  G7  C  
For my heart to own 
G7   Am7 G/B  C7   Dm              Gdim  Dm 
Stars in the sky,     make my wish come true  
B7         C    Cdim   Am 
Before the night has flown 
   A4sus Am  F7M  E7/9-     B7       Em       C9  Am7 Edim 
And let the music play as long as there's a song to  sing 
 A7 Dm7 Dm5-/7      G7     Fdim    C 
And  I  will stay younger than Spring
	        

Written by Gordon Jenkins