On broadway — Drifters

#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the# #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.# 'I can play this here guitar / And I won't quit 'til I'm a star / On Broadway'? Oh, well, it sounds more poetic than 'And I won't quit 'til I earn union scale in a pit band / On Broadway' -- AWR

"On Broadway" (Leiber / Stoller / Mann / Weil)

F# E/F# [4X] / / / /

Verse

They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway (on Broadway) They say there's always magic in the air (on Broadway) But when you're walkin' down the street And you ain't had enough to eat The glitter rubs right off and you're nowhere (on Broadway)

Key Change To G

Verse

They say the girls are something else on Broadway (on Broadway) But looking at them just gives me the blues (on Broadway) 'Cause how you gonna make some time When all you got is one thin dime And one thin dime won't even shine your shoes (on Broadway)

Key Change To Ab

Verse

Ha! They say that I won't last too long on Broadway (on Broadway) I'll catch a Greyhound bus for home, they all say (on Broadway)

3: But

'Cause I can play this here guitar And I won't quit 'til I'm a star on Broadway (on Broadway)

Repeat Verse 3 With Strings, Horns, And Guitar Solo Over First Two Lines

Coda:

I'm gonna make it, yeah (on Broadway) I'll be a big, big, big man (on Broadway) I'll have my name in lights (on Broadway) Everybody, everybody's gonna know me, yes (on Broadway) All up and down Broadway (on Broadway) [fade]

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers