Biography:
The fourth of seven children, John Royce Mathis was born on September 30, 1935 in Gilmer, TX to Clem and Mildred Mathis. As a small boy, the family moved to Post Street in San Francisco. It was there that he learned an appreciation of music from his father who taught him his first song, “My Blue Heaven”. At age eight, his father purchased an old upright piano for $25. When he brought it home, it wouldn’t fit through the front door. So that evening
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Other songs:
- A Time For Us
- Fly Me To The Moon
- It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
- Somewhere
- The Twelfth Of Never
- When A Child Is Born
- The Sweetheart Tree
- A Certain Smile
- An Affair To Remember
- Chances Are
- Gina
- Its Begining To Look A Lot Like Christmas
- Its Not For Me To Say
- Its The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
- Midnight Cowboy
- My Love For You
- Sleigh Ride
- The Last Time I Felt Like This
- Touch The Wind
- Whatll I Do
- Winter Wonderland
- Wonderful Wonderful
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Touch the Wind (Er Es Tu) written by Juan Carlos Calderon
played by Johnny Mathis,
Naudo Rodrigues, Mocedades, Nana Mouskouri, Brenda Kristen, Nedine Blom, The Shirelles(1974)
This is Johnny Mathis with piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnmNtoNRqM0
Sung in Spanish, French and English with 2 part harmony.
To get an idea of the vocal range https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cs9481KS0Q
To get an idea of an acoustic guitar version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7CwyGoP1T8
Capo on 3
[Intro]
C D C D
C G F C Bb B
I woke up this morn-ing and my mind fell a way,
C G F G
Look-ing back sad ly from to-mor-row,
C G F G
As I heard an ech-o from the past soft-ly say
Dm7/G C Bb F
Come Back, come back, won't you stay?
[Verse 1]
C Bb C C
Want ed to reach you, let you know I still care,
C G F G
I'm lost in the si-lence of my sor- row
C G F C F
And I put a prom-ise in the wind, on the air,
C Dm7/G C F/G
to fly a-way to you there.
[Chorus]
C G Am Dm D C G
Touch The Wind, Catch my love as it goes sail---ing
G G7 C F C G7 C F F/G
Touch The Wind, And I'll be close to you
C G7 Am
[soloist] I'll be eas-y to find OOoo
[choral] Touch The Wind,
F D C G
[soloist] On the wings of the morn- ing I'll go sail- ing
[choral] Catch my love as it goes sail- ing
G G7 C F
[soloist] I'll be eas-y to find OOoo
[choral] Touch The Wind,
C G7 C F/G C Dm/G Bb B
[soloist] Ba-by I'll be close to you
[choral] And I'll be close to you
[Verse 2]
C Bb C C
And on-ly for ev-er can I say I love you,
C G F G
And on-ly for-ev-er have I lost you.
C G F C F
But on-ly a dream-er could wake up, as I do,
C Dm7/G C F/G
and hope it's still ye-ter-day
[Chorus]
C G Am Dm D C G
Touch The Wind, Catch my love as it goes sail---ing
G G7 C F C G7 C F F/G
Touch The Wind, And I'll be close to you
C G7 Am
[soloist] I'll be eas-y to find OOoo
[choral] Touch The Wind,
F D C G
[soloist] On the wings of the morn- ing I'll go sail- ing
[choral] Catch my love as it goes sail- ing
G G7 C F
[soloist] I'll be eas-y to find OOoo
[choral] Touch The Wind,
C G7 C F/G C
[soloist] Ba-by I'll be close to you
[choral] And I'll be close to you
played by Johnny Mathis,
Naudo Rodrigues, Mocedades, Nana Mouskouri, Brenda Kristen, Nedine Blom, The Shirelles(1974)
This is Johnny Mathis with piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnmNtoNRqM0
Sung in Spanish, French and English with 2 part harmony.
To get an idea of the vocal range https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cs9481KS0Q
To get an idea of an acoustic guitar version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7CwyGoP1T8
Capo on 3
[Intro]
C D C D
C G F C Bb B
I woke up this morn-ing and my mind fell a way,
C G F G
Look-ing back sad ly from to-mor-row,
C G F G
As I heard an ech-o from the past soft-ly say
Dm7/G C Bb F
Come Back, come back, won't you stay?
[Verse 1]
C Bb C C
Want ed to reach you, let you know I still care,
C G F G
I'm lost in the si-lence of my sor- row
C G F C F
And I put a prom-ise in the wind, on the air,
C Dm7/G C F/G
to fly a-way to you there.
[Chorus]
C G Am Dm D C G
Touch The Wind, Catch my love as it goes sail---ing
G G7 C F C G7 C F F/G
Touch The Wind, And I'll be close to you
C G7 Am
[soloist] I'll be eas-y to find OOoo
[choral] Touch The Wind,
F D C G
[soloist] On the wings of the morn- ing I'll go sail- ing
[choral] Catch my love as it goes sail- ing
G G7 C F
[soloist] I'll be eas-y to find OOoo
[choral] Touch The Wind,
C G7 C F/G C Dm/G Bb B
[soloist] Ba-by I'll be close to you
[choral] And I'll be close to you
[Verse 2]
C Bb C C
And on-ly for ev-er can I say I love you,
C G F G
And on-ly for-ev-er have I lost you.
C G F C F
But on-ly a dream-er could wake up, as I do,
C Dm7/G C F/G
and hope it's still ye-ter-day
[Chorus]
C G Am Dm D C G
Touch The Wind, Catch my love as it goes sail---ing
G G7 C F C G7 C F F/G
Touch The Wind, And I'll be close to you
C G7 Am
[soloist] I'll be eas-y to find OOoo
[choral] Touch The Wind,
F D C G
[soloist] On the wings of the morn- ing I'll go sail- ing
[choral] Catch my love as it goes sail- ing
G G7 C F
[soloist] I'll be eas-y to find OOoo
[choral] Touch The Wind,
C G7 C F/G C
[soloist] Ba-by I'll be close to you
[choral] And I'll be close to you
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