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Over The Rainbow chords by Soundtracks

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This is my arrangement of "Over the Rainbow".  It owes a lot to
Joe Palumbo's version, but I've transposed it to a more playable
(for me, anyway) key, and simplified a lot of the chords to ones
I'm more familiar with.  If you can play Ninth and diminished
chords, you shouldn't have any trouble.

I've written out all but the simplest ones at the bottom, so
you'll know what I mean by some, and which version I use for
others.  Note that some of the diagrams show less strings than
*could* be used, but I wrote them out that way because they
bring out parts of the melody.  (And, yes, I know that
what I've written out as "A5" is really just an inversion of
an A7, but I had to distinguish it from the other A7.)

I know it may look intimidating, but if you use my chords, it's
really pretty easy to play, and sounds pretty cool.

You can sing to it, if you want to, and  I usually capo 3 to do
so, but mostly I play it as an instrumental (also capoed 3 --
sounds "tinklier").  With a few judicious (and pretty standard)
hammers and pull-offs, you can get almost all of the melody to
sound.

Also note that I use lower case letters for bass notes, so you
can tell them apart from chords.  Chord diagramA augmentedA bass note without a chord
"above" it means that it applies to the previous chord.

It's a little tough to follow without the words, but if you play
it I think you'll hear the melody running through it.

Give it a try.

Keith Comer
[email protected]
June, 2001



Over The Rainbow
Written by Harold Arlen and E. H. Harburg
Associated with Judy Garland

[Verse 1:]

Chord diagramG+G    /f#  Chord diagramE minor 7Em7   Chord diagramF#m7F#m7     Chord diagramB9B9  Chord diagramG+G
Some-     where ...

Chord diagramC majorC   Em/c#  Dm/b  E74  Chord diagramE7E7
Way ...
Chord diagramAm7Am7     Chord diagramFF Chord diagramG+G           Chord diagramE7E7    Chord diagramBb9Bb9
There's a ...

Chord diagramAm7Am7       D6/f#  Chord diagramG+G    Chord diagramAm7Am7  Chord diagramD MajorD+5
Once ...

[Verse 2:]

Chord diagramG+G    /f#  Chord diagramE minor 7Em7   Chord diagramF#m7F#m7     Chord diagramB9B9  Chord diagramG+G
Some-     where ...

Chord diagramC majorC     Em/c#  Dm/b  E74  Chord diagramE7E7
Skies ...

Chord diagramAm7Am7 Chord diagramFF   Chord diagramG+G               Chord diagramE7E7   Chord diagramBb9Bb9 Chord diagramAm7Am7
And the ...

       D6/f#   Chord diagramG+G
Really do ...

[Refrain:]

    Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramG5G5   Chord diagramG+G    Chord diagramG5G5 Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramG5G5 Chord diagramG+G
Someday I'll ...

Chord diagramG5G5  Chord diagramAm7Am7  A74 Chord diagramAm7Am7   A74 Chord diagramAm7Am7    A74 Chord diagramAm7Am7 A74 Chord diagramG6G6      /d /c /b
And wake ...

Chord diagramD MajorD+/a  Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramG5G5   Chord diagramG+G    Chord diagramG5G5   Chord diagramG+G Chord diagramG5G5  Chord diagramG+G
Where troubles ...

Chord diagramG5G5 Chord diagramA7A7  Chord diagramA5A5 Chord diagramA7A7   Chord diagramA5A5  Chord diagramA7A7  Chord diagramA5A5  Chord diagramA7A7
A- way ...

Chord diagramA5A5     Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramD#dimD#dim  A/e  Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramD7D7
That's where ...

[Verse 3:]

Chord diagramG+G    /f#  Chord diagramE minor 7Em7   Chord diagramF#m7F#m7     Chord diagramB9B9  Chord diagramG+G
Some-     where ...

Chord diagramC majorC    Em/c# Dm/b  E74  Chord diagramE7E7
Blue ...

Chord diagramAm7Am7   Chord diagramFF   Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramE7E7  Chord diagramBb9Bb9
Birds fly ...

Chord diagramAm7Am7          D6/f#     Chord diagramG+G
Why, then ...           ?

[Outro:]

Chord diagramG5G5 Chord diagramG+G Chord diagramG5G5  Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramG5G5  Chord diagramG+G    Chord diagramG5G5    Chord diagramG+G
If happy ...

Chord diagramG5G5 Chord diagramAm7Am7  A74 Chord diagramAm7Am7 A74
Be-yond ...

D7no3 Dno3 Chord diagramAm7Am7 Chord diagramD7D7    Chord diagramG+G
Why,  oh   ...        ?
Verse:
Em7:   0xx033
B9:    x21222
Em/c#: x4545x
Dm/b:  x2323x
E74:   0x020x
E7:    0x010x
B9:    x2122x
E7:    0x010x
Bb9:   x1011x
D6/f#: 2x020x
Chord diagramD MajorD+5:   xx033x

Chorus:
G:     3x000x
G5:    3x003x
Am7:   x0201x
A74:   x0203x
G6:    3xx000
Chord diagramD MajorD+/a:  x0022x
A7:    x0202x
A5:    x0x020
D#dim: xx1212
A/e:   xx2225

Outro:
D7no3: xx021x
Dno3:  xx023x

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