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Over The Rainbow

Music by Harold Arlen, Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg - 1939

Number 1 on the Hit Parade in 1939, played for 15 weeks.

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
F	Bb	F	Gm        C7
F          F#dim	B  Gm  Gdim	F	-
F	Bb	F	Em         A7
Dm	Bb7       G7	Gm	F
Gm	F          Fdim	Gm	C7
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
F	Am                F7	Bb               Bb7	Am F Am F#dim
Bb        Bbm	F          D7	G7        Gm  C7	F           Gm  C7
F	Am                F7	Bb               Bb7	Am F Am F#dim
Bb        Bbm	F          D7	G7        Gm  C7	F
F	Gm               C7	F	C    Bb   F    C7
F	Ddim	Gm        Fm	Gm        C+
F	Am               F7	Bb	Am F Am F#dim
Bb        Bbm	F          D7	G7        Gm  C7	F   (C7 to chorus)
Ending:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
F	Gm7             C7	F
F	Gm7             C7	F	-  (end)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verse:

When all the world is a hope -less jum -ble and the rain -drops tum -ble all a -round,

Heav -en o -pens a mag -ic lane.

When all the clouds dark -en up the sky -way, there's a rain -bow high -way to be found,

Lead -ing from your win -dow pane.

To a place be -hind the sun, Just a step be -yond the rain.

 

Chorus:

Some -where o -ver the rain -bow way up high,

There's a land that I heard of once in a lull -a -by.

Some -where O -ver the Rain -bow, skies are blue,

And the dreams that you dare to dream real -ly do come true.

Some -day I'll wish up -on a star and wake up where the clouds are far be -hind me,

Where trou -bles melt like lem -on drops, a -way a -bove the chim -ney tops, that's where you'll find me.

Some -where O -ver the Rain -bow, blue -birds fly,

Birds fly O -ver the Rain -bow, why then, oh why can't I?

 

Ending:

If hap -py lit -tle blue -birds fly be -yond the rain -bow, why oh why can't I?

If hap -py lit -tle blue -birds fly be -yond the rain -bow, why oh why can't I?

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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