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I Left My Heart In San Francisco

(aka I Left My Car)

Words by Douglass Cross, Music by George Cory - 1954

"I Left My Car" -  Lyrics by Terry Bull (Peninsula Banjo Band)

Verse:
Dm7            G7	Cmaj7         Am7	Dm7             G7	Cmaj7
Bdim           E7b9	Am               C+	Am7             D9	Dm7            G9
Ddim	Cm             Ab9	G                  E7	C                 D9
Dm7          C#dim	G9              Dm7	|
Chorus:
C               Em	Am	Dm	-
-	-               G7	C	-
Em	-	Bm	-               E7
Am	D7	G7	-
C               Em	Am	Dm	-
-	-               G7	E7	-
A7	-	D7	-
Dm             Fm	G7	C	-      (to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell.

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Verse:

The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gray,
The glory that was Rome is of another day.
I've been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan,
I'm going home to my city by the Bay.

 

Chorus:

I left my heart in San Francisco,
High on a hill, it calls to me.
To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars,
The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care.

My love waits there in San Francisco,
Above the blue and windy sea.
When I come home to you, San Francisco,
Your golden sun will shine for me.

 

I Left My Car:

I left my car in San Francisco,
High on a hill, it rolled away.
For I forgot to set the brake, but it wasn't a mistake,
It rolled all the way into the Bay, yea, yea, yea.

I'm never going back, to San Francisco,
Forget that car, there it will stay,
With my ex-wife and her dear old mother,
In that car at the bottom of the Bay.

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Performer Links:

(webpage)

 

Listen to the WineLand Banjo Band perform "I left My Heart In San Francisco" (mp3)

 

Listen to Eddie Peabody perform "I left My Heart In San Francisco" on the Banjoline (mp3)

 

Listen to the WineLand Banjo Band perform "I left My Car" (mp3)

Vocal by Paul Knechtli

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com