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Goodbye Columbus

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			     "Goodbye Columbus"
				(Jim Yester)

Jim Yester, in the liner notes to the Japanese _From The Original Master
Tapes_ CD (Warner/Pioneer WPCP-3536):

  Written for Paramount Pictures, this was the title song for Ali McGraw's
  first major film.  A great exercise in songwriting, after viewing early
  film rushes in New York, the group returned to L.A.  to write, produce,
  and record our part of the music score in an amazingly short period of
  time.  [A rejected Kirkman/Alexander composition was reworked into
  _The Association_'s "Goodbye Forever".]


Verse 1:

	Cm7/F                         Abmaj7   Cm7
	Got to say hello, it's a lucky day
	Bbmaj7            Dm7              Abmaj7  Cm7 Dm7
	Kiss the moon goodbye and be on our way
	Gm           Eb
	It's a lucky day 'cause I found you
	Dm7          Abmaj7
	Gonna build a new world around you
	Dm7              Dbmaj7            Cm7/F
	Touch the sun and run, it's a lucky day

Chorus:

	Bb           Gm
	Hello life, goodbye Columbus
	Dm7                     Abmaj7
	I've got a feelin' that you're gonna hear from us
	Dm7                           Gm                    Dbmaj7
	You're gonna know that we've taken the world by surprise
	                    Gbmaj7
	Got that look in our eyes

Verse 2:

	           Bbmaj7 Ebmaj7
	Its a lucky day,   just for changin'
	Abmaj7                Dbmaj7
	Leavin' the old world behind
	     Bbmaj7   Ebmaj7
	Lucky day for walkin' a new road
	Abmaj7             Dbmaj7
	Just to clear your mind
	Cm7             Dm7
	It's a day for startin' a new way
	Eb                      Dm7
	Tellin' the old one goodbye
	Cm7            Dm7
	Lucky day for gettin' above it
	Eb                   Dbmaj7   Cm7/F
	Spread your wings and fly

[repeat chorus]

	             Bb
	It's a lucky day (goodbye Columbus...)

[repeat chorus]

	            Dbmaj7
	It's a lucky day, yeah
	Gbmaj7
	Goodbye, goodbye Columbus

Coda [repeat to fade]:

	Dbmaj7
	Goodbye, goodbye Columbus
	Gbmaj7
	Goodbye, goodbye Columbus


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers