You Light Up My Life

Words & Music by Joe Brooks
Recorded by Debby Boone, 1977 (#1 for 10 weeks)


Dm         G        C        Am
So many nights I'd sit by my window

Bm7          E7            E7sus4 E7   A7
Waiting for someone to sing  me   his song.

Dsus4  D   D9   G        C       C/B   Am
 So   ma - ny dreams I kept deep in - side me

B7                        D7         Am7    D7
Alone in the dark but now you've come a - long.


Refrain:

     G               G7
And you light up my life

             E7    E7sus4  E7 Am
You give me hope to  car - ry on

     Am7  A7sus4 Am7  D7  Am7  D7  Am7  G    B7  Em Am7   D9
You light   up   my  days and fill my nights        with song.


Dm         G      C           Am
Rollin' at sea a-drift on the waters

Bm7-5        E7    Bm7-5 E7  E7sus4 E7   A7
Could it be finally I'm turn - ing  for home?

Dsus4   D  D9  G        C   C/B      Am
 Fin - 'ly a chance to say "Hey! I  love you"

B7             D     Am7   D7
Never again to be all a - lone


Repeat Refrain:


Coda:

G                    G7
And you light up my life

Bm7-5        E7    E7sus4 E7 Am
You give me hope to car - ry on

    Am7  A7sus4 Am7  D7  Am7  D7  Am7 B7          Em
You light  up   my  days and fill my nights with song.

A             G        B7           Em   B+  A
It can't be wrong when it feels so right

        G  Am D9       C   Em7 Am7  G
'Cause you        you light up my life.


*Suggested by recent visitor Bob Ashline.

This song is one of those somewhat uncommon cases where its own popularity worked against it in the long run. It was, as stated above, number one on the charts for ten weeks, and was on the charts longer than that -- seemingly almost forever. During its time on the charts, it was so over-played on radio stations that the public grew genuinely tired of hearing it. Because it did, it feel into disfavor (as happened to "Born Free") to such a degree that people even got to the point they didn't want to admit they had ever liked it enough to make it number one.



 
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