Detroit - 1966 - The Happiest Millionaire

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 20 Feb 2002

There's a shining city,
west of here,
where dreams are booming into gear.
It's no humdrum,
ninetofive town;
it's a growing, going,
bright, alive town!

Golden sparks light up the skies, there;
like a thousand Fourth of Julys there!
How I want to stake a claim in;
roll up my sleeves
and make a name in,
Detroit!

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You can hear it humming!
See it coming! Feel it
ev'rywhere you go!
It's tomorrow morning!
The future dawning
with a bright and shining glow!
It's the land where golden chariots
are molded out of dreams!
Detroit! Detroit! It's Detroit!

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Oh if I could be there,
I'd be free, there,
standing on my own two feet!
I'd invent new motors!
Design new rotors!
I'd be in the driver's seat!
I'd make all my dreams, realities!
Oh, I'd be on my way!
In Detroit! Detroit! In Detroit!

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Others are giving their dreams a try
If others can dream there,
Why can't I?

So you see where the rainbow ends for me
is known to the world as "F. O. B. Detroit!"

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If you hear it humming!
See it coming!
That's the place where you must go!

But to make your name there,
you must stake your claim there,
and let no one tell you "No!"

Then my dreams of golden chariots
in Detroit can all come true,
for you hear it humming,
and you see it coming,
and you want to be there too.

Soft karaoke
Words
synth strings
pizz str
synth brass
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Detroit 1966 'The Happiest Millionaire'
sung by Tommy Steele
by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
copyright 1966 by Wonderland Music Co. Inc., Glendale, Ca, U.S.A.
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Wenesday 20 February 2002 at 22.39
in association with Doug Grierson
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