On the Street Where You Live

Words & Music by Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe
Recorded by Andy Williams, 1964 (#28)*
From the Broadway musical "My Fair Lady"


Am7 D7  G6     Em    Am7  D9   Am7   G       Am7    G
I  have often walked     down this street before,

Am7 D7  G+7      B7     Em7/9   Am7alt     Am7    D7
But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before;

Am7 Em7 CM7    Em7 A7/9  D9      G       G/F#   Em
All at  once am I       several stories high,

Em7  Em7sus4  C  Am Am7  Cdim  Gdim  D7   G6  Edim Am7
Know - ing   I'm on the street where you live.


     D7   G6     Em  Am7  D9 Am7   G      Am7    G
Are there lilac trees     in the heart of town?

Am7 D7  G+7     B7     Em7/9  Am7alt     Am7    D7
Can you hear a lark in an - y  oth - er part of town?

Am7  Em7   CM7       Em7 A7/9  D9    G      G/F#   Em
Does en - chantment pour      out of every door?

Em7 Em7sus4  C   Am Am7  Cdim  Gdim  D7   G    Am7alt   G
No,  it's   just on the street where you live.



Bridge:

B7  CM7  CM7/6              Cm7    Cm7/6
And oh,        the towering feeling, 

        Cdim D7                 G6
Just to know    somehow you are near;

   Gdim      C#m7-5    F#7
The o - ver - powering feeling 

         Bm7   Bm7/E    E7    A7    D7
That any second you may suddenly appear.


Am7   D7   G6       Em    Am7  D9  Am7   G      Am7    G
Peo - ple stop and stare;     they don't bother me,

Am7   D7    G+7     B7      Em7/9     Am7alt       Am7    D7
For there's nowhere else on earth that   I   would rather be.

Am7 Em7 CM7     Em7 A7/9 Cdim  B7    G9    G/F#   Em
Let the time go by --     I   won't care if I

Em7 Em7sus4  C   Am Am7  Cdim  Gdim  D7   G6
Can    be   here on the street where you live.


*Previously recorded versions which also appeared on the charts included Vic Damone (#4), Eddie Fisher (#18) and Lawrence Welk (#96), all in 1956.


 
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