I Left my Heart in San Francisco Cory and Cross
Key of C
This song was written in 1954 by two then-unknown songwriters, George C. Cory, Jr. and Douglass Cross. Cory wrote the music and Cross wrote the lyrics. They pitched the song to Tony Bennett’s pianist and musical director, Ralph Sharon, who was looking for new material for Bennett to sing at the Fairmont Hotel. “We dug down to the bottom of our trunk and gave it to him,” said Cross.

Bennett performed it for the first time in 1962 at the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill in San Francisco, and it quickly became his signature song.

Bill plays this in G

    Dm            C            F             C
The loveliness of Paris, seems somehow sadly gay,
    Dm             Am      Dm           G
The glory that was Rome, is of   another day.
          G#m                    Dm        C     Am
I've been terribly alone and forgotten in Man - hat – tan,
F         D           Dm    D#m    G   C
I'm going home, to my city  by    the bay.
 
 
  C       Cm        Am      Dm
I left my heart, in San  Francisco,
          G    Dm  G               C
High on a hill,    it   calls  to  me.
G  Dm        C      Dm    C
To be  where little cable cars,
Am   Em            B
Climb halfway to the stars;
            C        D          G            Cm
The morning fog, may chill, the air, I don't care.
 
 
 
   C                    Cm      Am      Dm
My love waits there, in San Francisco,
    F        G     Dm  G   Dm    A
A - bove the blue,     and windy sea;
G#    A     Dm           C               Am
When I come home to you, San Francisco,
     Am    F         G          C             Dm    C (5th fret)
Your golden sun, will shine, on  me.
                    [022120]



I left my heart in San Francisco I left my spleen in Abilene
and then I left my brain in a town called Couer d'Alene
and in Detroit, I left my hair - I don't care
I left my heart in San Francisco - I found my knee in Tennessee
and when I find my butt in Connecticut the docs will re-assemble me!
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