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Song title:      Up On The Roof
Original Album:	 - (single) (The Drifters)

Words and Music by Gerry Goffin & Carole King
Copyright © 1962 Atlantic Records
Published by Sony Music Publishing

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)



NOTES:
Capo on 1. Chords and tab are relative to capo. Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:
Chords:
G  320003


        | G    | %         | G
Up on the roof,    up on the roof, 



VERSE1:
Chords:
G   320003    Am7  x02010
Em  022000    C/D  xx0010
C   x32010


   | G                   | Em
When this old world starts getting me down

  | C                 | Am7      C/D | G
And people are just too much for me to face (Up on the roof)

| %                 | Em 
I climb way up to the top of the stairs

  | C               | Am7         C/D | G
And all my cares just drift right into  space (Up on the roof)



CHORUS1:
Chords:
C      x32010    G   320003
C6     x3221x    Em  022000
Cmaj7  x32000    D9  xx0210


| C               | C6          Cmaj7   | C6
  On the roof, it's peaceful as can   be

  | G                | Em             | C6 | D9 [stop chord]
And there, the world below can't bother me

Let me tell you now



VERSE2:
Chords:
G   320003    Am7  x02010
Em  022000    C/D  xx0010
C   x32010


   | G                 | Em
When I come home feelin' tired and beat

| C             | Am7    C/D     | G
I go up where the air is fresh and sweet (up on the roof)

                  | Em
I get away from the hustling crowd

  | C               | Am7        C/D  | G
And all that rat-race noise down in the street (up on the roof)



CHORUS2:
Chords:
C      x32010    G   320003
C6     x3221x    Em  022000
Cmaj7  x32000    D9  xx0210


| C               | C6         | Cmaj7 | C6
  On the roof's the only place I know

    | G                Em            | C6      | D9 [stop chord]
Where you just have to wish to make it so, let's go

        | G
Up on the roof



[String INSTRUMENTAL over verse chords]


 
 | C                  | C6          | Cmaj7 | C6
At night, the stars put on a show for free

   | G              | Em              | C6 | D9 [stop chord]
And, darling, you can share it all with me

I keep a-tellin' you



VERSE3:
Chords:
G   320003    Am7  x02010
Em  022000    C/D  xx0010
C   x32010


| G                    | Em
  Right smack dab in the middle of town

| C         | Am7       | C/D     G
I found a paradise that's trouble-proof (Up on the roof)

     | G               | Em
And if this world starts getting you down

      | C             | Am7    C/D  | G
There's room enough for two up on the roof (Up on the roof)



OUTRO:
Chords:
Em  022000
G   320003


        | Em
Up on the roof (Up on the roof)

           | G
Oh, come on, baby (Up on the roof)

           | Em
Oh, come on, honey (Up on the roof)

                | G
Everything is all right (Up on the roof)