Level: 2
Tuning: Standard

Written in 1924 by Isham Jones ("I'll See You In My Dreams," "There Is No Greater Love," "We're In the Army Now" and many more), lyrics by Gus Kahn ("Carolina In the Morning," "Toot Toot Tootsie," "I'll See You In My Dreams," "Makin Whoopee," "Dream a Little Dream Of Me,") "It Had To Be You" is one of the most popular and most covered tunes of the "great American songbook." It has been sung and danced to in numerous film, including "It Had To be You," "Casablanca," "Annie Hall" and "When Harry Met Sally," for which it was a recurring theme. The seldom-heard intro/verse is included in this key-of-D arrangement. The chorus has a typical 32-bar form: there's a 16 bar statement, then you start to repeat those 16 bars but the last several bars are different (in this case, the last 8 bars).