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.)
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
