Fifth Dimension - Up up and away
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"Up, Up, and Away"
(Jimmy Webb)
Intro:
Fadd2 Ebadd2 Dbadd2 [2X]
/ / / / / /
Verse 1:
FWould you like to Fmaj7ride in my bEbeautiful balloon
Ab Abmaj7 Gb/Db Gb
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
B D#m B7/D# E
We could float among the stars together, you and I
B F#/B B D7
For we can fly we can fly
Chorus:
GUp, up and Gmaj7away
My Cmaj7beautiful, my bF9eautiful
Gadd2BalloonFadd2 Ebadd2 Gadd2 Fadd2 Ebadd2
Verse 2:
The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon
It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon
We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky
For we can fly we can fly
[repeat chorus]
Bridge:
Bb Dm/Bb Cm/Bb F7/Eb
Suspended under a twilight canopy
Bb/D Dm/Bb Cm/Bb F7/Eb
We'll search the clouds for a star to guide us
DbIf by some Dbmaj7chance you find yourself lGb6oving me
We'll fEind a cloud to Am/Ehide us
We'llFadd2 keep the moon bEbadd2eside Dbadd2 us
Verse 3:
Love is waiting there in my beautiful balloon
Way up in the air in my beautiful balloon
If you'll hold my hand we'll chase your dream across the sky
For we can fly we can fly
[repeat chorus]
Coda:
Gadd2Balloon.Fadd2.. Ebadd2
Gadd2Up, up, Fadd2and awayEbadd2 [repeat to fade]
N.B. there isn't a usable guitar fingering for those add2 chords - on
keyboard you'd voice them as 2nd/3rd/5th (e.g. Fadd2 => G/A/C) in the
right hand. Steely Dan would refer to this voicing years later as the
"mu-major" chord.
-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers