I Left My Heart In San Francisco

Tony Bennett

Words by Douglass Cross and Music by George Cory



Peak chart position # 19 in 1962

Tony's signature song. Surprisingly, this song is not even close to being his biggest chart

success. He had a half-dozen other Top 20 hits that were initially more popular.



The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gay

The glory that was Rome is of another day

I've been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan

I'm going home to my city by the Bay



I left my heart in San Francisco

High on a hill, it calls to me

To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars

The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care



My love waits there in San Francisco

Above the blue and windy sea

When I come home to you, San Francisco

Your golden sun will shine for me