Halfway To Paradise chords by Tony Orlando

Chords with lyrics

Halfway To Paradise:Tony Orlando
#39 on BB Hot 100 on EPIC Records
in 1961.

INTRO: E MajorE BB E MajorE

#1.
E MajorE     A augmentedA    E MajorE
I want to be your lover,
              BB
but your friend is all I've stayed.
     E MajorE  E7E7   A augmentedA
I'm only halfway to paradise.
  E MajorE     BB    E MajorE
So near, yet so far, away.

#2.
      E MajorE     A augmentedA    E MajorE
I long for your lips to kiss my lips,
              BB
but just when I think they may,
      E MajorE  E7E7   A augmentedA
you lead me halfway to paradise,
  E MajorE     BB    E MajorE
so near, yet so far away..mmm..

CHORUS:
BB              E MajorE
Being close to you is almost heaven.
  BB             E MajorE
But seeing you can do just so much.
  BB                 E MajorE
It hurts me so to know your heart's a treasure..
     BbmBbm      GbGb    BB   B7B7
and that my heart is forbidden to tou...ch, so...

#3.
     E MajorE     A augmentedA    E MajorE
Put your sweet lips close to my lips,
                    BB
and tell me that's where they're gonna stay.
       E MajorE  E7E7   A augmentedA
Don't lead me halfway to paradise,
A augmentedA   E MajorE     BB    E MajorE
Oh, so near, yet so far away.

OUTRO:
  E MajorE     BB    E MajorE
so near, yet so far away.
  E MajorE     BB    E MajorE
so near, yet so far away.


A augmentedA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.