BLUES MY NAUGHTY SWEETIE - Free Jazz Leadsheet

“blues my naughty sweetie gives to me” (commonly referenced as “blues my naughty sweetie”) was composed in 1919 by Charles McCarron, Carey Morgan, and Arthur Swanstrom. The earliest sheet-music publication appeared in New York that year. The first known commercial recording was by Irving Kaufman in 1919, capturing the Tin Pan Alley and early jazz-influenced popular style.

The lyrics describe a humorous, conversational take on love’s troubles — the blues inflicted by a mischievous “sweetie” — combining irony and melodic charm. Musically, the piece sits within a blues-inflected popular song form rather than a strict 12-bar blues; its melody flows over accessible harmonic changes and invites instrumental embellishment.