Biography:
Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949 in New Rochelle, New York, United States) is an American musical theatre and film composer, and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman (1950-1991), Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz. For his work he has won eight Academy Awards as well as ten additional nominations.
His best known work includes the Disney animated movies, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin
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SONG: Out There
ARTIST: Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
From the musical, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
C#m
The world is cruel
A
The world is wicked
C#m D
It's I alone whom you can trust in this whole city
G#sus G# A#m7(no5) G#/B#
I am your only friend
C#m A
I who keep you, teach you, feed you, dress you
C#m G#m
I who look upon you without fear
F#m G#m Amaj7
How can I protect you, boy, unless you always stay in here
E/G G#
Away in here
F#m/G# C#m/G# G#7
[spoken]Remember what I taught you, Quasimodo
C#m
You are deformed
[I am deformed]
A
And you are ugly
[And I am ugly]
C#m
And these are crimes
For which the world
D
Shows little pity
G#sus G#
You do not comprehend
A#m7b5 G#/B#
[You are my one defender]
C#m B A
Out there they'll revile you
B/A A
As a monster
[I Am A monster]
C#m B A
Out there they will hate
G#m
And scorn and jeer
[Only a monster]
F#m7
Why invite their calumny
G#m
And consternation?
Amaj7
Stay in here
G#m
Be faithful to me
[I'm faithful]
A F#m G#
Grateful to me
[I'm grateful]
C#m
Do as I say
F#m/C#
Obey
C#m/G#
And/I'll stay
G# C#m
In here
F#m/C# C#m F#m/C# C#m
C Fm/C C C7 F/C
C Fm/C C C7
Fm/C
C Fm/C C C7 Fm/C C
Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone
C Fm/C C C7 Fm/C C
Gazing at the people down below me
Em Am/E Em E7(no3rd) A/E F#m7b5 Em
All my life I watch them as I hide up here alone
Em Am/E Em E7(no3rd) Am/E Em
Hungry for the histories they show me
G7/D F/C C Dm/C C
All my life I memorize their faces
G7 F/C C Dm/C C
Knowing them as they will never know me
F C/E
All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day
Dm7 Dm7
Not above them
Dm7/G Dm7/G
But part of them
C
And out there
Fmaj7 Gsus G
Living in
Csus2/E C/E
the sun
F F/G C
Give me one day out there
F Gsus D#
All I ask is one
G#maj7 Fm7/A#
To hold forever
C
Out there
Fmaj7 Gsus G Em7
Where they all live un
Am
aware
Dm7 Dm7/G
What I'd give
Em7 Am
What I'd dare
Dm7 F/E F6 F/G C Fm/C C C7 Fm/C C Fm/C C C7 Fm/C
Just to live one day out there
F G/F F G/F F
Out there among the millers and the weavers and their wives
F G/F F Em7
Through the roofs and gables I can see them
G# A#/G# G# A#/G# G#
Ev'ry day they shout and scold and go about their lives
Fm7 Fm7
Heedless of the gift it is to be them
C/G Dm7
If I was in their skin
C/G A#7
I'd treasure ev'ry instant
D#
Out there
G#maj7 A#7sys A#7
Strolling by
D#/G
the Seine
G# A#7sus A#
Taste a morning
D#
out there
G#maj7 A#7sus A#7
Like ordinary
F#
men
B G#m7/C#
Who freely walk
D#
about there
G#maj7 A#7sus A#7
Just one day
Gm
and then
Cm7 Fm7 Fm7/A#
I swear I'll be content
A#7 F#(add2) Bmaj7
With my share
A#7sus
Won't resent
A#7sus/F
Won't de
Gm/F Fm/A#
spair
Gm A#7sus/G A#7sus/F
Old and bent
A#7sus/C
I won't
A#sus/C A#7sus/G
care
A#sus/D
I'll have
Fm7
spent
G#/G
One
G#/A#
day
Out
D# G#m/D# D# D#7 G#m D# G#m/D# D# D#7 G#m F7(no5) D#(add2)
there
ARTIST: Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
From the musical, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
C#m
The world is cruel
A
The world is wicked
C#m D
It's I alone whom you can trust in this whole city
G#sus G# A#m7(no5) G#/B#
I am your only friend
C#m A
I who keep you, teach you, feed you, dress you
C#m G#m
I who look upon you without fear
F#m G#m Amaj7
How can I protect you, boy, unless you always stay in here
E/G G#
Away in here
F#m/G# C#m/G# G#7
[spoken]Remember what I taught you, Quasimodo
C#m
You are deformed
[I am deformed]
A
And you are ugly
[And I am ugly]
C#m
And these are crimes
For which the world
D
Shows little pity
G#sus G#
You do not comprehend
A#m7b5 G#/B#
[You are my one defender]
C#m B A
Out there they'll revile you
B/A A
As a monster
[I Am A monster]
C#m B A
Out there they will hate
G#m
And scorn and jeer
[Only a monster]
F#m7
Why invite their calumny
G#m
And consternation?
Amaj7
Stay in here
G#m
Be faithful to me
[I'm faithful]
A F#m G#
Grateful to me
[I'm grateful]
C#m
Do as I say
F#m/C#
Obey
C#m/G#
And/I'll stay
G# C#m
In here
F#m/C# C#m F#m/C# C#m
C Fm/C C C7 F/C
C Fm/C C C7
Fm/C
C Fm/C C C7 Fm/C C
Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone
C Fm/C C C7 Fm/C C
Gazing at the people down below me
Em Am/E Em E7(no3rd) A/E F#m7b5 Em
All my life I watch them as I hide up here alone
Em Am/E Em E7(no3rd) Am/E Em
Hungry for the histories they show me
G7/D F/C C Dm/C C
All my life I memorize their faces
G7 F/C C Dm/C C
Knowing them as they will never know me
F C/E
All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day
Dm7 Dm7
Not above them
Dm7/G Dm7/G
But part of them
C
And out there
Fmaj7 Gsus G
Living in
Csus2/E C/E
the sun
F F/G C
Give me one day out there
F Gsus D#
All I ask is one
G#maj7 Fm7/A#
To hold forever
C
Out there
Fmaj7 Gsus G Em7
Where they all live un
Am
aware
Dm7 Dm7/G
What I'd give
Em7 Am
What I'd dare
Dm7 F/E F6 F/G C Fm/C C C7 Fm/C C Fm/C C C7 Fm/C
Just to live one day out there
F G/F F G/F F
Out there among the millers and the weavers and their wives
F G/F F Em7
Through the roofs and gables I can see them
G# A#/G# G# A#/G# G#
Ev'ry day they shout and scold and go about their lives
Fm7 Fm7
Heedless of the gift it is to be them
C/G Dm7
If I was in their skin
C/G A#7
I'd treasure ev'ry instant
D#
Out there
G#maj7 A#7sys A#7
Strolling by
D#/G
the Seine
G# A#7sus A#
Taste a morning
D#
out there
G#maj7 A#7sus A#7
Like ordinary
F#
men
B G#m7/C#
Who freely walk
D#
about there
G#maj7 A#7sus A#7
Just one day
Gm
and then
Cm7 Fm7 Fm7/A#
I swear I'll be content
A#7 F#(add2) Bmaj7
With my share
A#7sus
Won't resent
A#7sus/F
Won't de
Gm/F Fm/A#
spair
Gm A#7sus/G A#7sus/F
Old and bent
A#7sus/C
I won't
A#sus/C A#7sus/G
care
A#sus/D
I'll have
Fm7
spent
G#/G
One
G#/A#
day
Out
D# G#m/D# D# D#7 G#m D# G#m/D# D# D#7 G#m F7(no5) D#(add2)
there
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