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Just found this old demo track I recorded in the shower of my first apartment in NYC while preparing to play it at my friends' wedding way back in June 2011. (It's the Ella version and it's been stuck in my head ever since.)
lyrics
when all the world is a hopeless jumble
and the raindrops tumble all around
heaven opens a magic lane
when all the clouds darken up the skyway
there's a rainbow highway to be found
leading from your windowpane
to a place behind the sun
just a step after the rain
somewhere, over the rainbow
way up high
there's a land that I heard of
once in a lullaby
somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue
and the dreams that you dare to dream
really do come true
some day I'll wish upon a star
and wake up where the clouds are far behind me
where troubles melt like lemon drops
away above the chimney tops
that's where you'll find me
somewhere over the rainbow
blue birds fly
birds fly over the rainbow
then why oh why can't i
credits
released February 11, 2016
music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg (1939) Ella Fitzgerald version.
covered by Amy Vachal (2011)
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