The Folks Who Live On The Hill

Words & Music by Oscar Hammerstein & Jerome Kern
Recorded by Peggy Lee, 1957


D       B7 Em7 
Someday,      

              G/B Edim A7 D        B7   Em7    Edim
We'll build a home on  a  hilltop high, you and I,

D          B7    Em7         A7+5      D   B7   G
Shiny and new, a cottage that two can fill;

             Gdim            D        B7  G
And we'll be pleased to be called

              A7   Em7 A7   D    B7   G A7
The folks who live on the hill.


D       B7 Em7         G/BEdim A7      D  B7   Em7    Edim
Someday,        we may add  a wing or two,  a thing or two;

   D          B7     Em7        A7+5     D   B7   G
We will make changes,    as any family will.

            Gdim         D     B7  G
But we will always be called

               A7  Em7 A7  D
The folks who live on the hill.


Bridge:

F#m    Fdim  Bm     Fdim   F#m    Fdim      F#m
Our veranda will command a view of meadows green,

    Fdim     F#7      Bm7-5    Fdim E7     A7  
The sort of view that seems to want to be seen.

 
A7  Em7      A7       G/B A7+5  D       B7  G
And when the kids grow up and leave us,

              G/B Edim A7   D        B7   Em7        Edim
We'll sit and look at that same old view,    just we two --

D        B7   Em7    G/B A7+5    D        B7   G
Baby and Joe,    who used to be Jack and Jill,

              Gdim         D    B7  G
The folks who like to be called 

               A7            F#7    B7  Em
What they have always been called:

    B+    Em7 Edim A7       D
The folks who live on the hill.



 
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