Biography:
Paul Albert Anka (born July 30, 1941, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Lebanese-Canadian singer and songwriter.
He began singing as a child, first starting in the St Elijah Syrian Orthodox Church choir in Ottawa. As a student at Ottawa's Fisher Park High School he was part of a trio called the Bobby Soxers.
Encouraged by his parents, at age 14 he recorded his first single, I Confess. In 1957 he went to New York City where he auditioned for ABC, singing a lovestruck verse he had written to a former babysitter, Diana Ayoub.
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Other songs:
- Diana
- Lonely Boy
- My Hometown
- Puppy Love
- Put Your Head On My Shoulder
- Think I'm In Love
- Think Im In Love Again
- Time To Cry
- A Steel Guitar And A Glass Of Wine
- Adam And Eve
- Bring The Wine
- Cinderella
- Crazy Love
- Dance On Little Girl
- Do I Love You
- Dont Ever Leave Me
- Dont Gamble With Love
- Eso Beso
- Hello Jim
- Hold Me Till The Morning Comes
- I Confess
- I Dont Like To Sleep Alone
- I Love You Baby
- I Love You In The Same Old Way
- I Miss You So
- Id Never Find Another You
- Its Time To Cry
- Just Young
- Kissin On The Phone
- Late Last Night
- Laughter In The Rain
- Let The Bells Keep Ringing
- Love Makes The World Go Round
- Love Me Warm And Tender
- Midnight
- My Heart Sings
- My Home Town
- My Way
- Papa
- Remember Diana
- So Its Goodbye
- Something Happened
- Something Has Changed
- Tell Me That You Love Me
- The Story Of My Love
- Times Of Your Life
- Tonight My Love Tonight
- Without You
- You Are My Destiny
- Your Love
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"My Way" is a song written by Paul Anka and set to music based on the French song "Comme d'habitude"
co-composed, co-written and performed in 1967 by Claude François. Anka's English lyrics are unrelated
to the original French song. Paul heard the original 1967 French pop song, Comme d'habitude (As Usual)
performed by Claude François, while on holiday in the south of France. He flew to Paris to negotiate
the rights to the song. Sometime later, Anka had a dinner in Florida with Frank Sinatra and "a couple
of Mob guys" during which Sinatra said "I'm quitting the business. I'm sick of it; I'm getting the
hell out". Back in New York, Anka re-wrote the original French song for Sinatra, subtly altering the
melodic structure and changing the lyrics. "At one o'clock in the morning, Paul sat down at an old IBM
electric typewriter and said, 'If Frank were writing this, what would he say?' So Paul started,
metaphorically, 'And now the end is near.' he read a lot of periodicals, and noticed everything was
'my this' and 'my that'. Paul said we were in the 'me generation' and Frank became the guy for me to
use to say that. Anka used words like: 'I ate it up and spit it out.' On his own way of talking. Anka
finished the song at 5 am. "I called Frank up in Nevada – he was at Caesar's Palace – and said, 'I've
got something really special for you. Paul said at loud during the recording at the record company:
'Hey, I can write it, but I'm not the guy to sing it'. It reached No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
and No. 2 on the Easy Listening chart in the US. In the UK, the single achieved a still unmatched record,
becoming the recording with the most weeks inside the Top 40, spending 75 weeks from April 1969 to
September 1971. It spent a further 49 weeks in the Top 75. This is a song that we can all feel related
and say: “It's My Life”.
PAY ATTENTION TO THE CHORDS STRUCTURE
D/F# 004232
F#m/A 000222
D7 557575
B7 797877
Em 009987
D/A 557775
Am6 002212
Bm 004432
Gm7 353333
A7 575655
G/B 009787
Em7 000787
G 355433
PAY ATTENTION TO THE CHORDS STRUCTURE
[Verse 1]
D/F# F#m/A
And now, the end is near
Am6 B7
And so I face, the final curtain
Em Em7
My friend, I'll say it clear
A7 D/F#
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain
[Verse 2]
D/A D7
I've lived, a life that’s full
G Gm7
I've traveled each, and every highway
D/A A7
But more, much more than this
G/B D/F#
I did it my way
[Verse 3]
D/F# F#m/A
Regrets, I've had a few
Am6 B7
But then again, too few to mention
Em Em7
I did, what I had to do
A7 D/F#
And saw it through, without exemption
[Verse 4]
D/A D7
I planned, each chartered course
G Gm7
Each careful step, along the byway
D/A A7
But more, much more than this
G/B D/F#
I did it my way
[Verse 5]
D/F# D7
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
G
When I bit off, more than I could chew
Em A7
But through it all, when there was doubt
F#m/A Bm
I ate it up, and spit it out
Em A7
I faced it all, and I stood tall
G/B D/F#
And did it my way
[Verse 6]
D/F# F#m/A
I've loved, I've laughed and cried
Am6 B7
I've had my fill, my share of losing
Em Em7
And now, as tears subside
A7 D/F#
I find it all so amusing
[Verse 7]
D/A D7
To think, I did all that
G Gm7
And may I say, not in a shy way
D/F# A7
Oh no, Oh no, not me
G/B D/F#
I did it my way
[Verse 8]
D/F# D7
For what is a man, what has he got?
G
If not himself, then he has naught
Em A7
To say the things, he truly feels
F#m/A Bm
And not the words, of one who kneels
Em A7
The record shows, I took the blows
G/B D/F#
And did it my way
co-composed, co-written and performed in 1967 by Claude François. Anka's English lyrics are unrelated
to the original French song. Paul heard the original 1967 French pop song, Comme d'habitude (As Usual)
performed by Claude François, while on holiday in the south of France. He flew to Paris to negotiate
the rights to the song. Sometime later, Anka had a dinner in Florida with Frank Sinatra and "a couple
of Mob guys" during which Sinatra said "I'm quitting the business. I'm sick of it; I'm getting the
hell out". Back in New York, Anka re-wrote the original French song for Sinatra, subtly altering the
melodic structure and changing the lyrics. "At one o'clock in the morning, Paul sat down at an old IBM
electric typewriter and said, 'If Frank were writing this, what would he say?' So Paul started,
metaphorically, 'And now the end is near.' he read a lot of periodicals, and noticed everything was
'my this' and 'my that'. Paul said we were in the 'me generation' and Frank became the guy for me to
use to say that. Anka used words like: 'I ate it up and spit it out.' On his own way of talking. Anka
finished the song at 5 am. "I called Frank up in Nevada – he was at Caesar's Palace – and said, 'I've
got something really special for you. Paul said at loud during the recording at the record company:
'Hey, I can write it, but I'm not the guy to sing it'. It reached No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
and No. 2 on the Easy Listening chart in the US. In the UK, the single achieved a still unmatched record,
becoming the recording with the most weeks inside the Top 40, spending 75 weeks from April 1969 to
September 1971. It spent a further 49 weeks in the Top 75. This is a song that we can all feel related
and say: “It's My Life”.
PAY ATTENTION TO THE CHORDS STRUCTURE
D/F# 004232
F#m/A 000222
D7 557575
B7 797877
Em 009987
D/A 557775
Am6 002212
Bm 004432
Gm7 353333
A7 575655
G/B 009787
Em7 000787
G 355433
PAY ATTENTION TO THE CHORDS STRUCTURE
[Verse 1]
D/F# F#m/A
And now, the end is near
Am6 B7
And so I face, the final curtain
Em Em7
My friend, I'll say it clear
A7 D/F#
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain
[Verse 2]
D/A D7
I've lived, a life that’s full
G Gm7
I've traveled each, and every highway
D/A A7
But more, much more than this
G/B D/F#
I did it my way
[Verse 3]
D/F# F#m/A
Regrets, I've had a few
Am6 B7
But then again, too few to mention
Em Em7
I did, what I had to do
A7 D/F#
And saw it through, without exemption
[Verse 4]
D/A D7
I planned, each chartered course
G Gm7
Each careful step, along the byway
D/A A7
But more, much more than this
G/B D/F#
I did it my way
[Verse 5]
D/F# D7
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
G
When I bit off, more than I could chew
Em A7
But through it all, when there was doubt
F#m/A Bm
I ate it up, and spit it out
Em A7
I faced it all, and I stood tall
G/B D/F#
And did it my way
[Verse 6]
D/F# F#m/A
I've loved, I've laughed and cried
Am6 B7
I've had my fill, my share of losing
Em Em7
And now, as tears subside
A7 D/F#
I find it all so amusing
[Verse 7]
D/A D7
To think, I did all that
G Gm7
And may I say, not in a shy way
D/F# A7
Oh no, Oh no, not me
G/B D/F#
I did it my way
[Verse 8]
D/F# D7
For what is a man, what has he got?
G
If not himself, then he has naught
Em A7
To say the things, he truly feels
F#m/A Bm
And not the words, of one who kneels
Em A7
The record shows, I took the blows
G/B D/F#
And did it my way
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