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

INTRO: E B E

#1.
E         A       E
I want to be your lover,
                            B
but your friend is all I've stayed.
         E   E7     A
I'm only halfway to paradise.
   E         B        E
So near, yet so far, away.

#2.
           E         A       E
I long for your lips to kiss my lips,
                           B
but just when I think they may,
            E   E7     A
you lead me halfway to paradise,
   E         B       E
so near, yet so far away..mmm..

CHORUS:
B                            E
Being close to you is almost heaven.
    B                         E
But seeing you can do just so much.
   B                                  E
It hurts me so to know your heart's a treasure..
         Bbm            Gb        B     B7
and that my heart is forbidden to tou...ch, so...

#3.
         E          A        E
Put your sweet lips close to my lips,
                                       B
and tell me that's where they're gonna stay.
              E   E7     A
Don't lead me halfway to paradise,
A      E         B       E
Oh, so near, yet so far away. 

OUTRO:
   E         B       E
so near, yet so far away.
   E         B       E
so near, yet so far away.



A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.