Biography:
Jason Robert Brown is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist from Ossining, New York. His career began with the unorthodox Songs for a New World, whose original off-Broadway production ran for 28 performances at the WPA Theater in New York City in 1995. The show sits on the boundary between musical and song cycle: it is a series of largely disjoint songs with (unlike a musical) no plot or characters that continue from song to song, but the songs and production themselves are highly theatrical and character-driven.
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Other songs:
- Another Life
- A Summer In Ohio
- Christmas Lullaby
- Coming Together
- I Could Be In Love With Someone Like You
- Id Give It All For You
- If I Didnt Believe In You
- If I Told You Now
- Im Not Afraid
- King Of The World
- Letting You Go
- Nobody Needs To Know The Last Five Years
- Nothing In Common
- On The Deck Of A Spanish Sailing Ship
- Opening Sequence The New World
- See Im Smiling
- She Cries
- Stars And The Moon
- Still Hurting
- Wondering
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I can't promise it's in the same key as Jason wrote it, as I don't have the sheet music
a piano. But I wanted to play it so I've been singing with these chords and I really
the sound. It's perfect in the lower soprano range as I have it tabbed here.
Hopefully you'll like it, too!
D Am
I met a man without a dollar to his name
C D
who had no traits of any value but his smile
D Am
I met a man who had no yearn or claim to fame
C D
who was content to let life pass him for a while
Am Em
and I was sure that all I ever wanted
C Am
was a life like the movie stars led
Em A
and he kissed me right here, and he said
D
"I'll give you stars and the moon and a soul to guide you
G
and a promise I'll never go.
D
I'll give you hope to bring out all the life inside you
G
and the strength that will help you grow.
D
I'll give you truth and a future that's twenty times better
G A
than any Hollywood plot."
A D
And I thought, 'You know, I'd rather have a yacht.'
D Am
I met a man who lived his life out on the road
C D
who left a wife and kids in Portland on a whim
D Am
I met a man whose fire and passion always showed
C D
who asked if I could spare a week to ride with him
Am Em
but I was sure that all I'd ever wanted
C Am
was a life that was scripted and planned
Em A
And he said, "But you don't understand...
D
I'll give you stars and the moon and the open highway
G
and a river beneath your feet.
D
I'll give you days full of dreams if you travel my way
G
and a summer you can't repeat.
D
I'll give you nights full of passion and days of adventure,
G A
No strings, just warm summer rain."
A D
And I thought, 'You know, I'd rather have champagne.'
D Am
I met a man who had a fortune in the bank
C D
who had retired at age thirty, set for life.
D Am
I met a man and didn't know which stars to thank,
C D
and then he asked one day if I would be his wife.
Am Em
And I looked up, and all I could think of
C Am
was the life I had dreamt I would live.
Em A
And I said to him, 'What will you give?'
D
"I'll give you cars and a townhouse in Turtle Bay,
G
and a fur and a diamond ring.
D
And we'll be married in Spain on my yacht today
G
and we'll honeymoon in Beijing.
D
And you'll meet stars at the parties I throw at my villas
G A
in Nice and Paris in June."
A
and I thought, "Okay."
C
And I took a breath,
A
and I got my yacht,
C
and the years went by,
Am
and it never changed,
Em
and it never grew,
Am
and I never dreamed...
Em
And I woke one day,
C
and I looked around,
A
and I thought, 'My God....
D
I'll never have the moon.'
a piano. But I wanted to play it so I've been singing with these chords and I really
the sound. It's perfect in the lower soprano range as I have it tabbed here.
Hopefully you'll like it, too!
D Am
I met a man without a dollar to his name
C D
who had no traits of any value but his smile
D Am
I met a man who had no yearn or claim to fame
C D
who was content to let life pass him for a while
Am Em
and I was sure that all I ever wanted
C Am
was a life like the movie stars led
Em A
and he kissed me right here, and he said
D
"I'll give you stars and the moon and a soul to guide you
G
and a promise I'll never go.
D
I'll give you hope to bring out all the life inside you
G
and the strength that will help you grow.
D
I'll give you truth and a future that's twenty times better
G A
than any Hollywood plot."
A D
And I thought, 'You know, I'd rather have a yacht.'
D Am
I met a man who lived his life out on the road
C D
who left a wife and kids in Portland on a whim
D Am
I met a man whose fire and passion always showed
C D
who asked if I could spare a week to ride with him
Am Em
but I was sure that all I'd ever wanted
C Am
was a life that was scripted and planned
Em A
And he said, "But you don't understand...
D
I'll give you stars and the moon and the open highway
G
and a river beneath your feet.
D
I'll give you days full of dreams if you travel my way
G
and a summer you can't repeat.
D
I'll give you nights full of passion and days of adventure,
G A
No strings, just warm summer rain."
A D
And I thought, 'You know, I'd rather have champagne.'
D Am
I met a man who had a fortune in the bank
C D
who had retired at age thirty, set for life.
D Am
I met a man and didn't know which stars to thank,
C D
and then he asked one day if I would be his wife.
Am Em
And I looked up, and all I could think of
C Am
was the life I had dreamt I would live.
Em A
And I said to him, 'What will you give?'
D
"I'll give you cars and a townhouse in Turtle Bay,
G
and a fur and a diamond ring.
D
And we'll be married in Spain on my yacht today
G
and we'll honeymoon in Beijing.
D
And you'll meet stars at the parties I throw at my villas
G A
in Nice and Paris in June."
A
and I thought, "Okay."
C
And I took a breath,
A
and I got my yacht,
C
and the years went by,
Am
and it never changed,
Em
and it never grew,
Am
and I never dreamed...
Em
And I woke one day,
C
and I looked around,
A
and I thought, 'My God....
D
I'll never have the moon.'
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