Biography:
Neil Sedaka (born 13 March 1939 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American pop singer, pianist, and songwriter often associated with the Brill Building era of songwriting. He teamed up with Howard Greenfield to write many major hit songs for himself and others.
Sedaka wrote his 1959 hit "Oh! Carol" about his then-girlfriend, Carol Klein, later to become Carole King. In 1963, King released a humorous answer entitled "Oh Neil".
The Laughter In the Rain Songfacts says Sedaka's hits dried up when The Beatles arrived
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Other songs:
- Breakin Up Is Hard To Do
- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
- Calendar Girl
- Goin' Home To Mary Lou
- Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen
- Laughter In The Rain
- Little Devil
- No Vacancy
- Oh Carol
- Rosemary Blue
- Stairway To Heaven
- The Diary
- The Hungry Years
- Oh! Carol
- Alice In Wonderland
- Bad Blood
- Bad Girl
- Crying My Heart Out For You
- Esagerata
- Goin Home To Mary Lou
- Gone With The Morning
- King Of Clowns
- Lets Go Steady Again
- Love Will Keep Us Together
- My Friend
- My World Keeps Getting Smaller Everyday
- Next Door To An Angel
- One More Mountain To Climb
- One Way Ticket
- Standing On The Inside
- Stephen
- Stupid Cupid
- Sweet Little You
- The Dreamer
- The Girl For Me
- The Immigrant
- The Other Side Of Me
- The Queen Of 1964
- You Mean Everything To Me
- Youre So Good To Me
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A frequent topic of discussion in the tab groups is 'what are the lyrics to
'Stairway To Heaven' about, anyway?'. Well, the narrator obviously isn't
going to build a *physical* stairway to heaven - for one thing, how could
he move it around without bumping it into everything? Instead, 'build a
stairway to heaven' is a *metaphor* - like, you know, sometimes words have
two meanings.
"Stairway To Heaven"
(Neil Sedaka - Howard Greenfield)
Intro:
F Dm
Climb up way up high
F Dm
Climb up way up high
F Dm
Climb up way up high
Bb C [N.C. (tympani)]
/ / / / /
Verse 1:
F
Well-A well-A well-A heavenly angel
Dm
I want you for my girl
Bb
When I kissed your sweet, sweet lips
C [N.C.] B
I knew you were out of this world
Chorus:
Bb
I'll build a stairway to heaven
F
I'll climb to the highest star
Bb G7
I'll build a stairway to heaven
C7/G /C F [1-3: N.C. (tympani); 4: to coda]
'Cause heaven is where you are
Verse 2:
Well-A well-A well-A over the rainbow
That's where I'm gonna climb
Way up high where the bluebirds fly
I'm gonna love you all the time
[sax solo over verse chords]
[repeat chorus]
Well-a well-a well I gotta be going
Gonna leave the world behind
Every day in a heavenly way
You're gonna drive me outta my mind
[repeat chorus]
Coda:
(F) C B
/ / / /
(...are)
Bb G7
I'll build a stairway to heaven
C7/G /C F [N.C. (tympani)]
'Cause heaven is where you are
F Dm
Climb up way up high [repeat to fade]
-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the#
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.#
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
A frequent topic of discussion in the tab groups is 'what are the lyrics to
'Stairway To Heaven' about, anyway?'. Well, the narrator obviously isn't
going to build a *physical* stairway to heaven - for one thing, how could
he move it around without bumping it into everything? Instead, 'build a
stairway to heaven' is a *metaphor* - like, you know, sometimes words have
two meanings.
"Stairway To Heaven"
(Neil Sedaka - Howard Greenfield)
Intro:
F Dm
Climb up way up high
F Dm
Climb up way up high
F Dm
Climb up way up high
Bb C [N.C. (tympani)]
/ / / / /
Verse 1:
F
Well-A well-A well-A heavenly angel
Dm
I want you for my girl
Bb
When I kissed your sweet, sweet lips
C [N.C.] B
I knew you were out of this world
Chorus:
Bb
I'll build a stairway to heaven
F
I'll climb to the highest star
Bb G7
I'll build a stairway to heaven
C7/G /C F [1-3: N.C. (tympani); 4: to coda]
'Cause heaven is where you are
Verse 2:
Well-A well-A well-A over the rainbow
That's where I'm gonna climb
Way up high where the bluebirds fly
I'm gonna love you all the time
[sax solo over verse chords]
[repeat chorus]
Well-a well-a well I gotta be going
Gonna leave the world behind
Every day in a heavenly way
You're gonna drive me outta my mind
[repeat chorus]
Coda:
(F) C B
/ / / /
(...are)
Bb G7
I'll build a stairway to heaven
C7/G /C F [N.C. (tympani)]
'Cause heaven is where you are
F Dm
Climb up way up high [repeat to fade]
-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers
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