Over The Rainbow
Harold Arlen
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Over The Rainbow Lyrics
Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
There’s a land that I’ve heard of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true
Someday I’ll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
High above the chimney tops
That’s where you’ll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow, blue birds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can’t I?
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can’t I?
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Chords
With its intricate picking pattern and chord extensions Over The Rainbow gently move from one chord to the next.
A replica of Eva Cassidy‘s beautiful one guitar arrangement of this classic song is what is on offer in this lesson.
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Doris Day
Having achieved success as a big band singer, film actress, recording artist, and radio and television performer, Doris Day became one of America’s best-loved entertainers of the 50s.
Among her most famed vocal performances are Dream A Little Dream Of Me, Que Sera, Sera, and Over The Rainbow.
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Eva Cassidy
Eva Cassidy was an American guitar player and vocalist who didn’t reach fame until after she passed away on November 2nd ’96.
Four years later, an amateur recording of Eva playing Over The Rainbow in her local pub was played on Top of the Pops 2, a TV show in the U.K.
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Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen wrote over four hundred songs. His 1938 song Over The Rainbow was voted the twentieth century’s #1 song by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Nobody has had more songs represented in the Great American Songbook than Harold Arlen.
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Judy Garland
Judy Garland shot to worldwide fame when she sang Over The Rainbow in the 1939 Blockbuster The Wizard of Oz at only sixteen years old.
Amazingly, she had made an astonishing twelve films prior to The Wizard Of Oz.
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