Roy Orbison – Uptown (Guitar)

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#72 in 1959 INTRO:
G           G            G           G
Up-up-town..up-up-town.. Up-up-town..up-up-town..
#1.
  G       D7        Db7  C7  G
Uptown in penthouse num--ber three..(up-up-town)..
(up-up-town.)
  C                  D7        Db7  C7  G
Uptown there lives a doll just made for me.

(doo-doo-wop..doo-doo-wop)

G         D7                       C7
She's the finest thing that you've ever seen,

       G                        D7
uh-huh-huh..(uh-huh-huh..uh-huh-huh.)
#2.
  G       D7           Db7   C7  G
Uptown, I see her most eve---ry  day.

  C             D7          Db7   C7 G
Uptown, but she never, ever looks my way.

           D7                  C7
I'm just a bellhop, you see, I can't stop,

    D7              Db7  C7 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        D7        Db7  C7  G
Uptown, in penthouse num..ber three.

  C     D7      Db7  C7  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.

Em
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        D7        Db7  C7  G
Uptown, in penthouse num..ber three.

  C     D7      Db7  C7  G   /  G
Uptown, just my baby and me.
SOLO: | G | G | G | G | | C | C | G | G | | D | C | G | G | CHORUS:
      C
Yeah, one of these days, I'm gonna have money.

G
She'll wanna be my ever-loving, honey.

Em
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        D7        Db7  C7  G
Uptown, in penthouse num..ber three.

  C     D7      Db7  C7  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.