Biography:
Jimmy Clanton was born 2 September 1940 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, and formed his first band in 1956 while in high school.
One of the few white singers to come out of the New Orleans R&B/rock & roll sound (he was known as the "swamp pop R&B teenage idol"), he rode the crest of the popular teen music wave in the 1950s and '60s with such songs as 'Just a Dream' and 'Venus in Blue Jeans'. He even continued to release hits after he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1961 and served for two years.
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Just A Dream:Jimmy Clanton.
#4 Hot 100 and # 1 R&B in 1958.
#1.
G#
Just a dream, just a dream,
D#
all our plans and all our schemes.
D#
How could I think you'd be mine?
G#
The lies I tell myself each time.
#2.
G#
I know that we could never last.
D#
We just can't seem to, in the past.
D#
Just a dream I dream in vain,
G# G#7
With you I'd only live in pain.
CHORUS:
C#
Your picture, is always with me.
G#
I can still hear that same mournful song.
C# A# D# D#7
And now, I sit here crying..please, leave me alone.
#3.
D#7 G#
Why, why do I love you?
D#
How can I live in miser..y?
D#
I know that I won't forget you,
G# C# G#7
but now I know, it's too late for me.
CHORUS:
C#
Your picture, is always with me.
G#
I can still hear that same mournful song.
C# A# D# D#7
And now, I sit here crying..please, leave me alone.
#4.
D#7 G#
Why, why do I love you?
D#
How can I live in miser..y?
D#
I know that I won't forget you,
G# C# G#
but now I know, it's too late for me.
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
#4 Hot 100 and # 1 R&B in 1958.
#1.
G#
Just a dream, just a dream,
D#
all our plans and all our schemes.
D#
How could I think you'd be mine?
G#
The lies I tell myself each time.
#2.
G#
I know that we could never last.
D#
We just can't seem to, in the past.
D#
Just a dream I dream in vain,
G# G#7
With you I'd only live in pain.
CHORUS:
C#
Your picture, is always with me.
G#
I can still hear that same mournful song.
C# A# D# D#7
And now, I sit here crying..please, leave me alone.
#3.
D#7 G#
Why, why do I love you?
D#
How can I live in miser..y?
D#
I know that I won't forget you,
G# C# G#7
but now I know, it's too late for me.
CHORUS:
C#
Your picture, is always with me.
G#
I can still hear that same mournful song.
C# A# D# D#7
And now, I sit here crying..please, leave me alone.
#4.
D#7 G#
Why, why do I love you?
D#
How can I live in miser..y?
D#
I know that I won't forget you,
G# C# G#
but now I know, it's too late for me.
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
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