“Moon River” is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music) in 1961, for whom it won that year’s Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was originally sung in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Audrey Hepburn, although it has been covered by many other artists. The song also won the 1962 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.^[1]

It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded it in 1961 and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremonies in 1962. He sang the first eight bars at the beginning of his television show and also named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri after it. Williams’ version was disliked by Cadence Records president Archie Bleyer, who believed it had little or no appeal to teenagers.^{[citation needed]} Andy Williams’ version never charted, except as an LP track, which he recorded for Columbia in a hit album of 1962. (Wikipedia)

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THIS SONG IS PLAYED IN 3/4 TIME

What goes on…again?  Here’s Moon River, a piece I’m told Mancini wrote.  I’m

not sure who was the original singer, there was a bunch…

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Here are the chords:

Cmaj7 Am7 Fmaj7 Bm7b5 E7 C7 Bb7 Fm7#b5 B7 Em7 A7  Dm7 G7 Am7/G F7 C6

e–0—-0—-0—–0—0—0–1—-0—-1—0—0—1–1—-0—-1–0

B–0—-1—-1—–3—0—1–3—-1—-0—0—2—1–0—-1—-1–1

G–0—-0—-2—–2—1—3–1—-2—-2—0—0—2–0—-0—-2–2

D–2—-2—-3—–3—0—2–3—-2—-1—0—2—0–0—-2—-1–2

A–3—-0—-0—–2—2—3–1—-0—-2—2—0—0–2—-0—-3–3

E–0—-0—-0—–0—0—0–1—-2—-0—0—0—0–3—-3—-1–0

The lower-case “b”s and “5″s represent “flat 5″…

Cmaj7 Am7      57555X 57555X

Moon  river

Fmaj7        Cmaj7 xx10 9 10 8

Wider than a mile  xx10 9 10

Fmaj7           Cmaj7

I’m crossing you in style

Bmaj7b5     E7

Someday

Am7   C7

Oh, dream maker

Fmaj7 Bb7

You heart breaker

Am7         Fm7#b5 B7

Wherever you’re go  -  ing

Em7 A7  Dm7  G7

I’m go- ing your way

Cmaj7 Am7

Two   drifters

Fmaj7          Cmaj7

Off to see the world

Fmaj7         Cmaj7

There’s such a lot of world

Bm7b5     E7

To see

Am7 Am7/G

We’re af- ter  the

Fm7#b5 F7        Cmaj7

Same   rainbow’s end

Fmaj7             Cmaj7

Waiting round the bend

Fmaj7       Cmaj7

My Huckleberry friend

Am7  Dm7   G7     C6   Dm7,G7,Cmaj7[Hold]

Moon river    and me…

Kathleen Mary “Kathy” Chitty (born 1947) worked part-time selling tickets at the Railway Inn Folk Club in Brentwood, Essex, UK in 1964. She became the girlfriend and muse of Paul Simon when he lived in England in 1964 and 1965. She is referred to directly or indirectly in at least four of his songs.

He met Kathy Chitty on 12 April 1964 at the very first English folk club he played, the Railway Inn Folk Club in Brentwood, Essex. She was 17, he was 22 and they fell in love. Later that year they visited the US together, touring around mainly by bus. Kathy returned to England on her own with Simon returning to her some weeks later. When he was back in London he recorded the album The Paul Simon Songbook that included “Kathy’s Song”, and had a photo of Simon and Kathy on the cover. Also included in the album was another version of “The Sound of Silence”. (Wiki)

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“The Happy Wanderer” (“Der fröhliche Wanderer” or “Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann“) is a popular song by Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller written shortly after World War II. It is often mistaken for a German folk song, but it is actually an original composition. His sister Edith Möller conducted a small amateur children’s and youth choir in Schaumburg County, Northern Germany, internationally named Obernkirchen Children’s Choir, in Germany named Schaumburger Märchensänger.

In 1953, BBC Radio aired the choir’s winning performance at Llangollen International Eisteddfod, an annual arts festival in north-east Wales. The broadcast turned the cheerful encore into an instant hit. On January 22, 1954, the song entered the UK singles chart, and would stay on the chart – only a Top 12 at the time – for 26 non-consecutive weeks. With BBC Radio’s strong international influence, “The Happy Wanderer” suddenly turned up everywhere, e.g. as the winning song of the 1955 calypso road march season of the Trinidad Carnival (prompting protest that from now on, only calypsoes should be chosen over foreign music).

The amateur choir, many of whose original members were war orphans, turned into an unlikely international phenomenon in the following years. The group performed on countless international tours under the name Obernkirchen Children’s Choir, with performances on TV shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show (November 29, 1964, and December 11, 1966).

The song’s original German lyrics have been translated into several languages, and it has since become a choir classic. The English lyrics were written by Antonia Ridge. Milton DeLugg wrote a famous arrangement, and is sometimes falsely credited as the composer of the song. (wikipedia)

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Words & Music by Antonio Ridge & Friedrich Moller
Recorded by Frank Weir, 1954 (#4)

   A                                         E7
I love to go a-wandering along the mountain track,

    E7          D        Bm     D        E7     A
And as I go, I love to sing, my knapsack on my back.

Refrain:

       E7          A
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah,

       E7           A     D     A     D
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

       E7           A
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah,

    D       E7     A
My knapsack on my back.

I love to wander by the stream that dances in the sun;
So joyously it calls to me, 霤ome, join my happy song!?
Refrain:
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah,
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah, come, join my happy song.

I wave my hat to all I meet, and they wave back to me,
And blackbirds call so loud and sweet from ev'ry green wood tree.

Refrain:
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah,
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah, from ev'ry green wood tree.

Oh, may I go a-wandering until the day I die;
Oh, may I always laugh and sing beneath God's clear blue sky,.

Refrain:
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah,
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-da-ree, val-da-rah, beneath God's clear blue sky.

“In My Life” is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The song originated with Lennon, and while McCartney contributed to the final version, the extent of his contribution is in dispute. Released on the 1965 album Rubber Soul, it is ranked 23rd on the Rolling Stone article “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time“, and placed second on CBC’s 50 Tracks. Mojo magazine named it the best song of all time in 2000. (Wikipedia)

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                               In My Life
							Lennon/McCartney

G     D     G     D

            G            Em    G7         C   Cm         G
There are places I'll remember    all my li--ife though some have changed,

        G             Em    G7            C   Cm      G
Some forever not for better,    some have go--one and some remain.

            Em              C             F                     G
All these places had their moments, with lovers and friends I still can recall,

          Em                A7        Cm            G                  D
Some are dead and some are living, in my life I've loved them all.

        G                     Em    G7          C  Cm      G
But of all these friends and lovers,   there is no one compares with you,

           G                   Em     G7          C       Cm      G
And these memories lose their meaning,   when I think of love as something new.

          Em                     C           F                      G
Though I know I'll never lose affection for people and things that went before,

   Em                              A7           Cm            G               D
I know I'll often stop and think about them, in my life I'll love you more.

(Piano/Harpsichord solo)

   G                   Em     G7          C       Cm      G

   G                   Em     G7          C       Cm      G

          Em                     C           F                      G
Though I know I'll never lose affection for people and things that went before,

   Em                              A7           Cm            G               D
I know I'll often stop and think about them, in my life I'll love you more.

   Cm                     G      D    D7   G
In my life I'll love you more.