On Broadway

'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 1:

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)

Verse 2:

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)

Verse 3:

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] Oh! They're dead wrong, I know they are

'Cause I can play this here guitar

And I won't quit 'til I'm a star on Broadway (on Broadway)

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