Aretha Franklin

Released: July 1, 1972

Songwriter: Traditional

I’m climbing (I’m climbing)
Higher mountains (higher mountains)
Trying to get home (trying to get home)
I’m climbing (I’m climbing)
Higher mountains (higher mountains)
Trying to get home (trying to get home)
I’m climbing (climbing)
Higher mountains (climbing)
Lord, I’m climbing (climbing)
Everyday (climbing)
Oh, I’m climbing (I’m climbing)
Higher mountains (higher mountains)
Trying to get home, yeah (trying to get home)

My road has been a little rocky on my way home, yes it has (trying to get home)
My road has been a little rocky on my way home (trying to get home)
Oh, my road (climbing)
Has been a little rocky (climbing)
Going on up right (climbing)
Going on up a mountain (climbing)
I tell you my road (I’m climbing)
Has been a little rocky (higher mountains)
On my way home, Lord (trying to get home)

I’m going up the rough side of the mountain on my way home, meet my people (trying to get home)
I’m going up the rough side of the mountain on my way home, oh yeah (trying to get home)
I’m going (climbing)
Up the rough side of the mountain (climbing)
Oh, Jesus (climbing)
On my way (climbing)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (higher, higher)
Climbing (higher, higher)
Higher (higher, higher)
Higher Lord (higher, higher)
Higher (higher, higher)
Going on higher Lord (higher, higher)
To meet please (higher, higher)
Higher and higher (higher, higher)
Higher (higher, higher)
Oh, higher Lord (higher, higher)
Higher (higher, higher)
Higher Lord (higher, higher)
Higher (higher, higher)
Higher (higher, higher)
Oh, oh, oh, oh (higher, higher)
Yeah, higher (higher, higher)
Higher (higher, higher)
Oh, Lord (higher, higher)
Oh, higher (higher, higher)
Oh, higher (higher, higher)

I’m climbing (I’m climbing)
Higher mountains (higher mountains)
Trying to get home, Lord (trying to get home)

Aretha Franklin is both a 20th and 21st century musical and cultural icon known simply by her first Aretha. She is the reigning and undisputed “Queen Of Soul” with a legacy that spans five decades. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Aretha began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklin’s church as a child. In 1960, at the age of 18, Aretha embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records with modest success.

After moving to Atlantic Records in 1967, she released a steady string of US top ten hits through 1973 including “Spanish Harlem”, “Chain Of Fools”, “Baby I Love You”, “Since You’ve Been Gone”, “Daydreaming”, “The House That Jack Built”, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", ”Think“ and her first chart-topper “Respect” – a song that also won Aretha her first of 18 Grammys. During this time, several of her songs were also successful overseas.

By the mid-70s, Aretha’s commercial success waned and she left Atlantic for Clive Davis' Arista Records in 1980. Her 1982 song “Jump to It,” returned her to the top 40 for the first time in six years. 1985’s Who’s Zoomin' Who? got her back into the top 10 twice with its title track and “Freeway Of Love”. Four more songs reached the top 40 through 1986.

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