Over The Rainbow chords by Soundtracks

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.  A 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
y7alanzo@altavista.com
June, 2001




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

[Verse 1:]

G    /f#  Em7   F#m7     B9  G
Some-     where ...

C   Em/c#  Dm/b  E74  E7
Way ...
Am7     F G           E7    Bb9
There's a ...

Am7       D6/f#  G    Am7  D+5
Once ...

[Verse 2:]

G    /f#  Em7   F#m7     B9  G
Some-     where ...

C     Em/c#  Dm/b  E74  E7
Skies ...

Am7 F   G               E7   Bb9 Am7
And the ...

       D6/f#   G
Really do ...

[Refrain:]

    G   G5   G    G5 G  G5 G
Someday I'll ...

G5  Am7  A74 Am7   A74 Am7    A74 Am7 A74 G6      /d /c /b
And wake ...

D+/a  G   G5   G    G5   G G5  G
Where troubles ...

G5 A7  A5 A7   A5  A7  A5  A7
A- way ...

A5     D     D#dim  A/e  D   D7
That's where ...

[Verse 3:]

G    /f#  Em7   F#m7     B9  G
Some-     where ...

C    Em/c# Dm/b  E74  E7
Blue ...

Am7   F   G        E7  Bb9
Birds fly ...

Am7          D6/f#     G
Why, then ...           ?

[Outro:]

G5 G G5  G  G5  G    G5    G
If happy ...

G5 Am7  A74 Am7 A74
Be-yond ...

D7no3 Dno3 Am7 D7    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
D+5:   xx033x

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

Outro:
D7no3: xx021x
Dno3:  xx023x