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The 5th Dimension is an American popular music vocal group, whose repertoire also includes R&B, Soul, and Jazz, best-known during the late 1960s and 1970s for popularizing hits of songwriters like Jimmy Webb, Laura Nyro, Burt Bacharach, Ashford & Simpson, and others, and helping to popularize "flower power" music with both white and black middle-class Americans.
They are best-known during the late 1960s and early 1970s for popularizing the hits "Up
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...UP, UP AND AWAY... by The 5th Dimension
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*from 'Up, Up and Away (Buddha)' (1967)*
(modified from Andrew Roger's original tab)
*CAPO 3rd FRET*
(Original Key: F)
Intro:
D C Bb (x2)
Verse 1:
D Dmaj7 C
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?
F Fmaj7 Eb
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?
Ab Cm Ab7 Db
We could float a-mong the stars together, you and I,
Ab Eb Ab B7
For we can fly... we can fly...
Chorus 1:
E Emaj7 Amaj7 D9 E D C, E D C
Up, up and a-way, in my beautiful, my beautiful, bal-loon.
Verse 2:
D Dmaj7 C
The world's a nicer place, in my beautiful balloon.
F Fmaj7 Eb
It wears a nicer face, in my beautiful balloon.
Ab Cm Ab7 Db
We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky,
Ab Eb Ab B7
For we can fly... we can fly...
Chorus 2:
E Emaj7 Amaj7 D9 E D C, E D C
Up, up and a-way, in my beautiful, my beautiful, bal-loon.
Bridge 1:
G Bm Am D7
Suspended under the twilight canopy,
G/B Bm Am D7
We'll search the clouds for a star to guide us.
Bb Bbmaj7 Eb6
If by some chance you find yourself loving me;
Db Gbm D C Bb
We'll find a cloud to hide us, we'll keep the moon be-side us.
Verse 3:
D Dmaj7 C
Love is waiting there, in my beautiful balloon,
F Fmaj7 Eb
Way up in the air, in my beautiful balloon.
Ab Cm Ab7 Db
If you'll hold my hand, we'll chase your dream a-cross the sky,
Ab Eb Ab B7
For we can fly... we can fly...
Chorus 3:
E Emaj7 Amaj7 D9 E D C
Up, up and a-way, in my beautiful, my beautiful, bal-loon.
Coda:
E D C
Bal-loon...
E D C
Up, up, and a-way.
E D C
Up, up, and a-way.
E D C
Up, up, and a-way.
(Repeat to Fade)
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
---------------
D C Bb Dmaj7 F Fmaj7 Eb Ab
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
xx0232 x32010 x13331 xx0222 133211 x03210 x68886 466544
Cm E Emaj7 Amaj7 D9 G Bm Am
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
x35543 022100 022100 x02120 x5455x 320003 x24432 x02210
D7 G/B Bbmaj7 Eb6 Db Gbm
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
xx0212 x20033 x13231 xx1013 x46664 244222
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004 ([email protected])
---------------------.....................
*from 'Up, Up and Away (Buddha)' (1967)*
(modified from Andrew Roger's original tab)
*CAPO 3rd FRET*
(Original Key: F)
Intro:
D C Bb (x2)
Verse 1:
D Dmaj7 C
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?
F Fmaj7 Eb
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?
Ab Cm Ab7 Db
We could float a-mong the stars together, you and I,
Ab Eb Ab B7
For we can fly... we can fly...
Chorus 1:
E Emaj7 Amaj7 D9 E D C, E D C
Up, up and a-way, in my beautiful, my beautiful, bal-loon.
Verse 2:
D Dmaj7 C
The world's a nicer place, in my beautiful balloon.
F Fmaj7 Eb
It wears a nicer face, in my beautiful balloon.
Ab Cm Ab7 Db
We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky,
Ab Eb Ab B7
For we can fly... we can fly...
Chorus 2:
E Emaj7 Amaj7 D9 E D C, E D C
Up, up and a-way, in my beautiful, my beautiful, bal-loon.
Bridge 1:
G Bm Am D7
Suspended under the twilight canopy,
G/B Bm Am D7
We'll search the clouds for a star to guide us.
Bb Bbmaj7 Eb6
If by some chance you find yourself loving me;
Db Gbm D C Bb
We'll find a cloud to hide us, we'll keep the moon be-side us.
Verse 3:
D Dmaj7 C
Love is waiting there, in my beautiful balloon,
F Fmaj7 Eb
Way up in the air, in my beautiful balloon.
Ab Cm Ab7 Db
If you'll hold my hand, we'll chase your dream a-cross the sky,
Ab Eb Ab B7
For we can fly... we can fly...
Chorus 3:
E Emaj7 Amaj7 D9 E D C
Up, up and a-way, in my beautiful, my beautiful, bal-loon.
Coda:
E D C
Bal-loon...
E D C
Up, up, and a-way.
E D C
Up, up, and a-way.
E D C
Up, up, and a-way.
(Repeat to Fade)
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
---------------
D C Bb Dmaj7 F Fmaj7 Eb Ab
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
xx0232 x32010 x13331 xx0222 133211 x03210 x68886 466544
Cm E Emaj7 Amaj7 D9 G Bm Am
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
x35543 022100 022100 x02120 x5455x 320003 x24432 x02210
D7 G/B Bbmaj7 Eb6 Db Gbm
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
xx0212 x20033 x13231 xx1013 x46664 244222
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004 ([email protected])
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