Up, Up, and Away»
(Jimmy Webb)
Intro:
Fadd2 Ebadd2 Dbadd2 [2X]
/ / / / / /
Verse 1:
F Fmaj7 Eb
Would you like to ride in my beautiful 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:
G Gmaj7
Up, up and away
Cmaj7 F9
My beautiful, my beautiful
Gadd2 Fadd2 Ebadd2 Gadd2 Fadd2 Ebadd2
Balloon
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
Db Dbmaj7 Gb6
If by some chance you find yourself loving me
E Am/E
We’ll find a cloud to hide us
Fadd2 Ebadd2 Dbadd2
We’ll keep the moon beside 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:
Gadd2 Fadd2 Ebadd2
Balloon…
Gadd2 Fadd2 Ebadd2
Up, up, and away [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
