Broadway

Up tempo swing tune often played by the Count Basie Orchestra

Composed by Wilbur H Bird, Teddy McRae, Henri Woode
Year 1940
Length 32 bars
Time 4/4
Form AABA
Style Swing
Common Key C

Chords

Chord chart for the jazz standard Broadway

Lyrics

Broadway, broadway
Everybody's happy and gay
Where the night is brighter than day
Up along Broadway

Sweethearts and beaus
Dressed up in their sunday best cloths
On their way to movies and shows
Up along Broadway

Out of town, I'm low down
When I walk along the main street
Anywhere I don't care
I always find a main street just another plain street

Broadway Broadway
Take a little time out to play
Where the joy of living holds way
Up along Broadway

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