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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	Fmaj7	Gm       C7
F            F#dim	Bmaj7     Gm7	F	-
F	Bb	Fmaj7	Em7      A7
Dm	Bb7         G9	Gm7	F
Gm7	F            Fdim	Gm7	C7
Chorus:
F	Am                   F7	Bb       Bbmaj7  Bb7	Am  F  Am   F#dim
Bb6        Bbm6	F             D9	G7          Gm     C7	F         Gm    C9
F	Am                   F7	Bb        Bbmaj7 Bb7	Am  F  Am   F#dim
Bb          Bbm6	F             D9	G7           Gm     C7	F
F	Gm7                 C7	F6	C    Bb   F    C7
F	Ddim	Gm6         Fm	Gm7       C+
F	Am                   F7	Bb         Bbmaj7	Am  F   Am   F#dim
Bb6        Bbm6	F             D9	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 hopeless jumble and the raindrops tumble all around,

Heaven opens a magic lane.

When all the clouds darken up the skyway, there's a rainbow highway to be found,

Leading from your window pane.

To a place behind the sun, Just a step beyond the rain.

 

Chorus:

Somewhere over the rainbow way up high,

There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow, skies are blue,

And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me,

Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow, bluebirds fly,

Birds fly Over the Rainbow, why then, oh why can't I?

 

Ending:

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

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Performer Links:

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Listen to Eddie Peabody play "Over The Rainbow" on the Banjoline (mp3)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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