If I Could - Jack Wild (Pufnstuf OST Soundtrack)

So, I finally got around to chording this song from my childhood - 

Jack Wild's intro track from the film 1970 film Pufnstuf.
Lyrics by Norman Gimbel, Music by Charles Fox
from 'Pufnstuf' The Movie (1970)
Produced by Sid & Marty Krofft
Directed by Hollingsworth Morse
Performed by Jack Wild

Jack, you were my first love and I miss you. 

D     A     D     A

       D                      G

If I could, I would be 

    Dm                   C               F                            

A balloon that a little kid let go

                A♯                   C       Am               

Floating through the sky, flying free

A      D      Dm  Am  D                                           

If I could

       Dm                 Am

If I could, I would be 

    Dm                    C                        F

A giraffe with my head above the trees

                  A♯      C          Am 

So at big parades I could see

A     D     

If I could

               Am                                  

Jump on one and two and three

                                                 F

Lose to chase a  busy bumble bee

                   Am

Fire on the mountain, run and see

              A♯   F  Am  A♯  F  

If I’m a fool

Am

Lady, lady turn around, 

                                                  F

Lady, lady turn and touch the ground

                C                   A       

Yankee Doodle went to town 

                              D♯

And I’ll be late for school 

C         A

   Oh, school! 

D   D   A

       D                      G

If I could I would be

              Am-A♯                        C              F

Old and wise,     Knowing all there is to know

                A♯               C       Am   A

Then I’d answer right every time

                     D      Dm   D

When they asked. 

       D                   Dm

If I could, I would be 

F       A♯            C               F                            

A balloon that a little kid let go

                A♯                     C       Am               

Floating through the sky, flying free

A     D                                              

If I could

This Will Be Our Year - The Zombies

This Will Be Our Year was written and recorded in 1967 by The Zombies for their album Odessey and Oracle. 

         A                      C#m

The warmth of your love

                   A7                 D

Is like the warmth of the sun

         F                 E7

And this will be our year

              D                 A

Took a long time to come

          A                 C#m

Don't let go of my hand

           A7               D     

Now darkness has gone

         F                E7

And this will be our year 

             D                   A

Took a long time to come

            B

And I won't forget 

       Dm                       A

The way you held me up when I was down

            B                      Dm        

And I won't forget the way you said, 

D

"Darling I love you”

E                                A

You gave me faith to go on

                   C#m                                    A7

Now we're there and we've only just begun

F                  E7

This will be our year

             D                   A

Took a long time to come

         A                      C#m

The warmth of your smile

                 A7          D

Smile for me, little one

         F                E7

And this will be our year

             D                   A

Took a long time to come

          A                 C#m

You don't have to worry

                  A7                      D     

All your worried days are  gone

         F                E7

And this will be our year 

             D                 A

Took a long time to come

            B

And I won't forget 

        Dm                      A

The way you held me up when I was down

           B                       Dm        

And I won't forget the way you said, 

D

"Darling I love you”

E                                A

You gave me faith to go on

                   C#m                  A7

Now we're there and we've only just begun

F                   E7

This will be our year

             D                  A

Took a long time to come

                A7

Yeah we only just begun

          F                E7

Yeah this will be our year

             D                  A

Took a long time to come

I love this edit with home movies filmed by the same couple between 1965 and 1979. The soundtrack coupled with super 8 makes it incredibly moving and nostalgic. The film features a young couple in love and their growing family from 1965 to the moon landing in 1969, through holidays, and every days and ending in 1979, this is an amazing record of life in those times.

Norman Stanley James St. Clair - The Tremeloes

Norman Stanley James St. Clair
by The Tremeloes, from the 1967 album Chip, Dave, Alan, Rick

F     / Dm  F  /       / Dm    / 

F                    Em    Dm   C                                          F      E

  Look at him there,         Norman Stanley James St. Clair 

D                             C     F             Dm

  He wrote sonnets very well you know, 

Bb           C                         F

  People read them long ago. 

            Em   Dm                C                 F     E                                   

Totally bare,    with just a leafy little square

D                           C         F        Dm

  Did he write his sonnets in the nude? 

Bb               C                         F     D

  Questions like that can be rude.

A                                                                         D

Now he stands upon the steps of City Hall all alone

G                                                                          Cm

Thinkin’ ‘bout the prose he wrote in his world of stone

F              Em    Dm           C                          F      E

  Nobody cares what he’s done or what he wears

D                        C               F             Dm

  Only children sometimes stop and stare

Bb                    C                         F

  At Norman Stanley James St. Clair

Dm  D 

 A                                             D

  Norman Stanley James St. Clair 

G                            Gm           Cm   C             

  Norman Stanley James St. Clair 

F              Em    Dm           C                          F      E

  Nobody cares what he’s done or what he wears

D                        C               F             Dm

  Only children sometimes stop and stare

Bb                    C                         F

  At Norman Stanley James St. Clair

Dm                          F

   Norman Stanley James St. Clair 

Dm                          F

   Norman Stanley James St. Clair 

Dm                          F

   Norman Stanley James St. Clair