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"My Way" is a song written by Paul Anka and set to music based on the French song "Comme d'habitude" co-composed, co-written and performed in 1967 by Claude François. Anka's English lyrics are unrelated to the original French song. Paul heard the original 1967 French pop song, Comme d'habitude (As Usual) performed by Claude François, while on holiday in the south of France. He flew to Paris to negotiate the rights to the song. Sometime later, Anka had a dinner in Florida with Frank Sinatra and "a couple of Mob guys" during which Sinatra said "I'm quitting the business. I'm sick of it; I'm getting the hell out". Back in New York, Anka re-wrote the original French song for Sinatra, subtly altering the melodic structure and changing the lyrics. "At one o'clock in the morning, Paul sat down at an old IBM electric typewriter and said, 'If Frank were writing this, what would he say?' So Paul started, metaphorically, 'And now the end is near.' he read a lot of periodicals, and noticed everything was 'my this' and 'my that'. Paul said we were in the 'me generation' and Frank became the guy for me to use to say that. Anka used words like: 'I ate it up and spit it out.' On his own way of talking. Anka finished the song at 5 am. "I called Frank up in Nevada – he was at Caesar's Palace – and said, 'I've got something really special for you. Paul said at loud during the recording at the record company: 'Hey, I can write it, but I'm not the guy to sing it'. It reached No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 2 on the Easy Listening chart in the US. In the UK, the single achieved a still unmatched record, becoming the recording with the most weeks inside the Top 40, spending 75 weeks from April 1969 to September 1971. It spent a further 49 weeks in the Top 75. This is a song that we can all feel related and say: “It's My Life”. PAY ATTENTION TO THE CHORDS STRUCTURE D/F# 004232 F#m/A 000222 D7 557575 B7 797877 Em 009987 D/A 557775 Am6 002212 Bm 004432 Gm7 353333 A7 575655 G/B 009787 Em7 000787 G 355433 PAY ATTENTION TO THE CHORDS STRUCTURE [Verse 1]D/F#And now, the end F#m/Ais near And so Am6I face, the final B7curtain My friEmend, I'll say it cleaEm7r I'll state my A7case, of which D/F#I'm certain[Verse 2]D/AI've lived, a life thD7at’s full GI've traveled each, and Gm7every highway But moD/Are, much A7more than this I did it G/Bmy waD/F#y[Verse 3]D/F#Regrets, I've hadF#m/A a few But then Am6again, too few to B7mention EmI did, what I had Em7to do And saw A7it through, without D/F#exemption[Verse 4]D/AI planned, each chartereD7d course Each careful Gstep, along the Gm7byway D/ABut more, much more A7than this I did it G/Bmy waD/F#y[Verse 5]D/F#Yes, there were times, I'm sure D7you knew When I bit Goff, more than I could chew But through Emit all, when there A7was doubt I ate F#m/Ait up, and spit it Bmout I faced Emit all, and I stood A7tall And did iG/Bt my D/F#way[Verse 6]D/F#I've loved, I've laughed F#m/Aand cried I've had Am6my fill, my share B7of losing And Emnow, as teaEm7rs subside I find A7it all soD/F# amusing[Verse 7]D/ATo think, I did D7all that And mayG I say, not in Gm7a shy way Oh no,D/F# Oh no, notA7 me I did it G/Bmy waD/F#y[Verse 8]D/F#For what is a man, what has D7he got? If not Ghimself, then he has naught To say thEme things, he trA7uly feels And not the F#m/Awords, of one Bmwho kneels The recEmord shows, I toA7ok the blows And did iG/Bt my D/F#way