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			"Up, Up, and Away"
			   (Jimmy Webb)


Intro:

	Fadd2     Ebadd2  Dbadd2		[2X]
          /   / /   /   / /

Verse 1:

	F                 Fmaj7       Eb
	Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
	Ab                Abmaj7     Gb/Db        Gb
	Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
	          B     D#m      B7/D#            E
	We could float among the stars together, you and I
	            B F#/B        B    D7
	For we can fly    we can fly

Chorus:

	G          Gmaj7
	Up, up and away
	   Cmaj7          F9
	My beautiful, my beautiful
	Gadd2  Fadd2  Ebadd2    Gadd2  Fadd2  Ebadd2
	Balloon

Verse 2:

	The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon
	It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon
	We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky
	For we can fly    we can fly

[repeat chorus]

Bridge:

	Bb        Dm/Bb            Cm/Bb    F7/Eb
	Suspended under a twilight canopy
	Bb/D             Dm/Bb                Cm/Bb     F7/Eb
	We'll search the clouds for a star to guide us
	Db         Dbmaj7                    Gb6
	If by some chance you find yourself loving me
	       E              Am/E
	We'll find a cloud to hide us
	     Fadd2           Ebadd2 Dbadd2
	We'll keep the moon beside   us

Verse 3:

	Love is waiting there in my beautiful balloon
	Way up in the air in my beautiful balloon
	If you'll hold my hand we'll chase your dream across the sky
	For we can fly   we can fly

[repeat chorus]

Coda:

	Gadd2   Fadd2   Ebadd2
	Balloon...
	Gadd2   Fadd2   Ebadd2
	Up, up, and away			[repeat to fade]


N.B. there isn't a usable guitar fingering for those add2 chords - on
keyboard you'd voice them as 2nd/3rd/5th (e.g. Fadd2 => G/A/C) in the
right hand.  Steely Dan would refer to this voicing years later as the
"mu-major" chord.


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers
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