Diane Schuur

Released: January 1, 1987

Featuring: Count Basie Orchestra

Songwriter: Aretha Franklin

Producer: Jeffrey Weber Morgan Ames

[Chorus][x2]
I'm climbing
I'm climbing
Higher mountains
Higher mountains
Trying to get home
Trying to get home [Repeat
I'm climbing

[Verse 1]
My road been a little rocky on my way home
Trying to get home
My road has been a little rocky on my way home
Trying to get home
Ow... my road

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]
I'm going up the Side of the mountain On my way home (meet my people
Trying to get home
I'm going up the Side of the mountain On my way home
Trying to get home
I'm going up
Climbing [Repeat as directed
The ruff side of the mountain Oh Jesus On my way
Yea, yea, yea, yea, yeah

[Chorus]

Diane Schuur (nicknamed “Deedles”) is a jazz singer and pianist from Tacoma, Washington.

Schuur has been blind from birth due to retinopathy of prematurity, though she has been gifted with absolute pitch memory.

Diane emerged to the jazz scene in 1982, when she was invited by Stan Getz to perform with him at the White House, during the Reagan Administration. Since then, she has released a total of 24 albums, been nominated for 5 Grammy Awards and has won 2 Grammy Awards for Best Female Jazz Vocal Performance in 1986 and 1987.

From the album

Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra (1987)

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