Backstage

	  		Backstage:Gene Pitney. 
#4 in UK, #2 in Canada, #25 in USA in '66. 

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#1.( for orig.) INTRO: C F C 
C 
A thousand hands applaud tonight, 
Dm 
I sing my songs my star shines bright. 
Em                F 
I stop and smile, I take my bow, 
G                     G7 
I leave the stage and then, somehow.. 
  
Chorus: 
    C                     Am 
Backstage I'm lonely, backstage I cry. 
F                         G 
You've gone away and each night, I seem to die a little..  

#2. 
C 
Out on that stage I play the star. 
Dm 
I'm famous now, I've come so far. 
Em             F  
A famous fool, I let love go. 
G                  G7  
I didn't know, I'd miss you so. 

Chorus:  
    C                     Am 
Backstage I'm lonely, backstage I cry. 
F                      G               C   Am F G 
Hating myself, since I let you say goodbye.. 

#3.  
Bb 
Every night a different room, 
G 
Every night a different club. 
C                          Am  
And yet I'm lonely all the time. 
F     
When I sign my autograph, 
Eb  
When I hold an interview, 
F                       G  
Can't get you out of my mind. 

#4. 
C 
Come back my love, come back to me. 
Dm  
I need you now, so desperately. 
Em                 F 
What good is fame? It's just a game, 
G                   G7  
I'd give it all, to be the same. 

#5.  
    C                 Am 
Backstage I wait now, hoping I'll see.. 
F                         G                     Am  
Your smiling face waiting there, backstage, for me. 
     Dm           F                       G  G7 
Your smiling face waiting, backstage, for me. 
    C       F   G     C  F G C 
Backstage...Backstage... 


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