The Heartbeats - A Thousand Miles Away Chords

A Thousand Miles Away:The Heartbeats.
#5 on R&B Charts and #52 on Hot 100 in 1957.
 
#1.
G                       Em
You're a thousand miles away-ay,
(Doo-doo.)(Rat-a-tat-tat.)
       C                 D         G          Em
bu-u-t I still have your love to remember you by.
(Rat-a-tat-tat.)(You by.)
C      D                 G        Em
Oh, my dar-ar-ar-arling, dry your eyes,
(Rat-a-tat-tat-tat.)(Your eyes.)
C       D           G    Em C D
daddy's coming home soon.
(Whoo-hooo-hooo, hoo-hooo, hoo-hooo.)
 
#2.
      G             Em
On my knees e-every day-ay,
(Rat-a-tat-tat.)(All I do.)
C           D           G        Em
all I do is pray, baby, just for you.
(Rat-a-tat-tat.)((For you.)
C        D            G        Em
Hope you a-a-a-always want me, too,
(Rat-a-tat-tat.)((Me too.)
C       D           G    Em G G7
daddy's coming home soon.
(Whoo-hooo-hooo, woo-ooo.)
 
CHORUS:
   C           D      G
It may be on a Sunday morning.
(Doo-ooo.)
   C           Gmaj7   G
It may be on a Tuesday afternoon.
(Doo-ooo.)
    C         D        G
But no matter what the day is,
(Doo-ooo.)
             A
I'm going to make it (doo wah.)my business 
(doo wah.)
       D
to get home soon.
(Rad-a, rad-a, rad-a, rad-a.)
 
#3.
G                       Em
You're a thousand miles away-ay,
(Doo-doo.)(Rat-a-tat-tat.)
       C                 D         G          Em
bu-u-t I still have your love to remember you by.
(Rat-a-tat-tat.)(You by.)
C      D                 G        Em
Oh, my dar-ar-ar-arling, dry your eyes,
(Rat-a-tat-tat-tat.)(Your eyes.)
C       D           G    Em C D..Gmaj7
daddy's coming home soon.
(Whoo-hooo-hooo, hoo-hooo, hoo-hooo.)
 
 
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
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