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Uptown:Roy Orbison.
#72 in 1959. ( A great Orbison tune
which deserved much better.)
#1.
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Uptown in penthouse num..ber three.
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Uptown there lives a doll just made for me.
G D C
She's the finest thing that you've ever seen,
G D
uh-huh-huh, uh-huh-huh.
#2.
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Uptown, I see her most ev..ery day.
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Uptown, but she never, ever looks my way.
D C
I'm just a bellhop, you see, I can't stop,
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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.
A
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..
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Uptown, in penthouse num..ber three.
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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.
A
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..
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Uptown, in penthouse num..ber three.
C Gm A6 A6/9+ G
Uptown, just my baby and me.
Chorus:
C
Well, one of these days, I'm gonna have money.
G
She'll wanna be my ever-loving, honey.
A
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 Gm A6 A6/9+ G
Uptown, in penthouse num..ber three.
C Gm A6 A6/9+ G
Uptown, just my baby and me. (Fade.)
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
Written by Joe Melson/Roy Orbison