Shining Star words and music by Leo Graham and Paul Richmond

Recorded by the MANHATTANS on Columbia Records
(c)1980 Content Music, Inc. [w/ the 4 brothers
on the cover of the sheet music, in their best
'70s leisure suits, just beamin']

[8 bar intro] E Amaj7 E Amaj7
Honey,
E Amaj7
you are my shining star.
E
Don't you go away.

Amaj7
Wanna
E Amaj7
be right here where you are until my dying day.

E Amaj7 A/B [A w/ the B bass]

E Amaj7 E
So many have tried, tried to find a love like yours and mine

Amaj7 E

E Amaj7
Girl, don't your realize how you hypnotize?
E
Make me, love you more each time.

D A/C# B A/C# D
Honey I'll never leave you lonely;
A/C# B A/B Bb/C A/B
give my love to you only, to you only, to you on - ly.

Honey, you are my shining star.
Don't you go away.
Wanna be right here where you are unitl my dying day.

E Amaj7 E
Feels so good when we're lying here next to each other, lost in love.

Amaj7 E

E Amaj7
Baby, when we touch, love you so much.
E
You're all I ever dreamed of.

Honey I'll never leave you lonely;
give my love to you only, to you only, to you only.

[Big modulation here; then repeat and fade:]
F Bbmaj7
Honey, you are my shining star.
Don't you go away.
Wanna be right here where you are until my dying day.

Makes me all misty just to type the words. Hard to see how you're gonna
do any better.

Congrats,

Rico
--
"Now about so many roads, so many roads, sooo many
roads, so *many* roads, oh so >very< many roads, so so
many roads...."
--

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