Once Upon a Dream (Sleeping Beauty Waltz)

Words & Music by Sammy Fain & Jack Lawrence, Adapted from a theme from Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Recorded by Mary Costa & Bill Shirley, 1959 From the Walt Disney movie "Sleeping Beauty"


G  D9  G      Edim             D9      Fdim   A7
I know you, I walked with you once up - on a dream.

D Edim  D7       D7/F#         G6
I know you!  The gleam in your eyes

  Cdim      Em   Esus4 Em   A   A7  D7/9
Is so  fa - mil - iar  a gleam. Yet  I

 G   D9    G          D9        Am    E7-9      Am7  
Know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem

Edim  G/B     Em    Am7             Cdim
But if I know you I know what you'll do

        G  G+7 G6 E7alt7   Dm7 Am7 E7-9 Am7     Cdim D7  G
You'll love me at once the way you did once up - on  a dream.


Instrumental Break:

G  D9   G     Edim             D9       Fdim   A7
I know you, I walked with you once up - on a dream.


Resume Vocal:

Edim  G/B     Em     Am7            Cdim
But if I know you I know what you'll do

       G   G+7 G6 E7alt7   Dm7 Am7 E7-9  Am7     Cdim D7  G
You'll love me at once the way you did  once up - on  a dream.


G  D9  G     Edim              D9      Fdim   A7
I know you, I walked with you once up - on a dream.

D  Edim  D7        D7/F#         G6
I  know you!  The gleam in your eyes

  Cdim      Em   Esus4 Em  A     A7  D7/9
Is so  fa - mil - iar   a gleam, and  I

   G   D9     G        D9         Am    E7-9      Am7  
I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem

      G/B     Em     Am7             Cdim
But if I know you, I know what you'll do

        G  G+7 G6 E7alt7     
You'll love me at  once, 

    Dm7 Am7 E7-9 Am7    Cdim D7  G   | Em | Am7 | Cdim | G6 |
The way you did once up - on a dream.



 
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