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OAKLAND

Composer and Copyright - Unknown

Verse:
C	E7	F	C          A7
Dm7	G7	C        Cdim	G7      Gdim
G7	-	C        E7	A7
D7	-	G7  D7  G7  Cdim	G7
C	E7	F	C          A7
D7	A7       D7	G7      Gdim	G7      Cdim
G7        Gdim	G7        Cdim	G7        Gdim	G7        A7
D7	A7       D7	G7	C7
Chorus:
F	D7	G7	-
C7	F	G7	C7
F7	Bb	G7	C7
F	D7	G7	-
Bb        Bbm	F        D7	G7	C7
F	-        D7	G7        C7	F   (C7 to chorus)

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

Note:  The verse of this song is in the key of C, the chorus is in the key of F.

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Verse:

I am sure that you're a-ware of fam-ous cit-ies ev-ery where,

The ones which are ac-claimed in song and verse.

There are songs a-bout Chi-ca-go Lond-on Par-is and St. Paul.

Buff-a-lo Mi-am-i not to ment-ion Beav-er Falls.
But Tin Pan All-ey did us wrong be-cause they nev-er wrote a song

A-bout the great-est cit-y of them all.
Please don't go way.... I hope you'll stay....
And hear this song I wrote the oth-er day.

 

Chorus:

Oak-land's got the Trib-une Tow-er, Oak-land's got Lake Merr-itt too.
She's got Jack Lon-don Square, the Rai-ders come from there, The Kai-ser Cen- ter can be seen from ev-ery where.
Now where did all the peo-ple go when Fris-co burned? You know they came to Oak-land and they nev-er re-turned.
Right out-side the cit-y lim-its, shoots the free-way called the Nim-itz,
Of all the pret-ty cit-ies she's the lea-dah, and don't for-get the tube to Al-a-mee-dah,
She's got pride, she's got grace, and oh what a view, Oak-land we're for you.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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