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Song title:       Over The Rainbow
Original Album:	  The Wizard Of Oz (Soundtrack)

Words by E Y Harburg; music by Harold Arlen
Copyright © 1938 EMI Catalogue Partnership, EMI Feist Catalog Inc. and EMI
United Partnership Limited USA
Published by International Music Publications Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
There have been many versions of this song, beginning famously with Judy
Garland in 1939. The most acclaimed in recent years is Eva Cassidy's which
had finger-picked guitar and a more jazz-like vocal.
Then there was the mega-selling ukulele version by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole,
and the gorgeous ukulele + voice ensemble by The Worthless Peons.

This is the 1939 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack version (which is in G).
I play barrés in the VERSEs, but open chords work fine, too.


INTRO:

[play VERSE chords through once]


VERSE1:
Chords:
G  355433    Cm x35543
Bm x24432    Em x79987
C  x35553    Am 577655
G7 353433    D  x57775

G         Bm                C        G     G7
Somewhere over the rainbow,   way up high,
C       Cm  G           Em       Am        D    G
There's a   land that I heard of once in a lullaby


VERSE2:
G         Bm                C           G    G7
Somewhere over the rainbow,   skies are blue
C   Cm  G               Em      Am           D       G
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true


MIDDLE-EIGHT:
Chords:
G  320033    D   x57775
Am x02210    F#7 242322
Em 022000    Bm  x24432

    G              
Someday I'll wish upon a star
    Am                                 Em       Am  D  
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me

      G
Where troubles melt like lemon drops,
 F#7                                Bm    Am     D
Away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me


VERSE3:
Chords:
G  355433    Cm x35543
Bm x24432    Em x79987
C  x35553    Am 577655
G7 353433    D  x57775

G         Bm                C           G   G7
Somewhere over the rainbow,   bluebirds fly
C     Cm  G        Em       Am            D         G
Birds fly over the rainbow, why, then, oh why can't I?


CODA:
Chords:
G  320033    D  x57775
Am x02210    D7 x57575
C  x35553

   G                             Am
If happy little blue birds fly beyond the rainbow
C    D   D7  D     G
Why, oh, why can't I?