Uptown Chords - Roy Orbison






Uptown:Roy Orbison.
#72 in 1959. ( A great Orbison tune
which deserved much better.)

#1.
G             Gm    A6   A6+9 G
Uptown in penthouse num..ber  three.
  C                  Gm        A6   A6+9 G                  
Uptown there lives a doll just made for  me.
G         D                 C
She's the finest thing that you've ever seen, 
       G               D
uh-huh-huh, uh-huh-huh.

#2.
  G       Gm           A6  A6+9 G
Uptown, I see her most ev..ery  day.
  C             Gm          A6    A6+9  G
Uptown, but she never, ever looks my    way.
           D                 C
I'm just a bellhop, you see, I can't stop,
    Gm              A6   A6+9 G
and tell her what I want to   say...

CHORUS:
     C
That one of these days, I'm gonna have money.
G
She'll wanna be my ever-loving, honey.
A
It won't be long, just-a wait and see,
            D        C                 D
I'll have a big car, fine clothes, and then I'll be..
  G            Gm    A6   A6+9 G  
Uptown, in penthouse num..ber  three.
  C     Gm      A6   A6+9  G
Uptown, just my baby and   me.

CHORUS:
      C
Yeah, one of these days, I'm gonna have money.
G
She'll wanna be my ever-loving, honey.
A
It won't be long, just-a wait and see,
            D        C                 D
I'll have a big car, fine clothes, and then I'll be..
  G            Gm    A6   A6+9 G  
Uptown, in penthouse num..ber  three.
  C     Gm      A6   A6+9  G
Uptown, just my baby and   me.


CHORUS:
      C
Well, one of these days, I'm gonna have money.
G
She'll wanna be my ever-loving, honey.
A
It won't be long, just-a wait and see,
            D        C                 D
I'll have a big car, fine clothes, and then I'll be..
  G            Gm    A6   A6+9 G  
Uptown, in penthouse num..ber  three.
  C     Gm      A6   A6+9  G
Uptown, just my baby and   me. (Fade.)


A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.