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Uptown by Roy Orbison - Guitar Chords

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Version 1

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

INTRO:
Gbm   G     Em7   G    Em7 G
Up-up-town..up-up-town..


#1.
A G       D    Gm          G       Em    G
Uptown in penthouse number three..(up-up-town)..

(up-up-town.)
  C                  Eb        D        G                
Uptown there lives a doll just made for me.
(doo-doo-wop..doo-doo-wop)
G         D                 C
She's the finest thing that you've ever seen, 
       G                        D
uh-huh-huh..(uh-huh-huh..uh-huh-huh.)

#2.
D G       Gm           D      G
Uptown, I see her most every  day.
  C             Gm          D        G
Uptown, but she never, ever looks my way.
           D                 C
I'm just a bellhop, you see, I can't stop,
    Gm              A6      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.
Em7
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       G  
Uptown, in penthouse num..ber three.
  C     Gm      A6       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       G  
Uptown, in penthouse num..ber three.
  C     D                G
Uptown, just my baby and me.

OUTRO:
 G
(Up-up-town..up-up-town..up-up-town..up-up-town..

up-up-town..)(Fade.)


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