A Stranger In Paradise:The Four Aces.
Top of the Pop Charts in 1954.
(Capo 5th fret.)
#1.
Dm7 G9 Cmaj7 C6
Take my hand..I'm a stranger in paradise.
C6 Dm7 G9 Fm Cmaj7 C6
All lost in a wonderland..a stranger in paradise.
C6 Dm7 G9 Cmaj7
If I stand starry-eyed..that's the danger in paradise..
C6 Am6 Dm7 Fm G9 C
for mortals who stand beside, an angel like you.
CHORUS:
G#7 C#
I saw your face and I ascended..
Bm6 C7 Fm
out of the commonplace, into the rare.
E7 A
Somewhere in space, I hang suspended..
C6 Dm7 G9 Cmaj7
until I know, there's a chance that you care.
#2.
Edim Fm7
Won't you answer this fervent prayer..
G9 Cmaj7 C6
of a stranger in paradise?
C6 Dm7 G9 Cmaj7 C6
Don't send me in dark despair, from all that I hunger for.
D7 G9 Em7 Edim
But open your Angel's arms, to this stranger in paradise.
Dm7 Fm G9 C
And tell him that, he need be, a stranger no more.
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
