Love Chronicles
Al Stewart
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D C G D I can remember the first girl that I did love C G It was Stephanie D C G D In kindergarten arithmetic classes she used to C G Sit next to me D C G I'd pass her sticky sweets under the table D C G Where the teacher couldn't see D C Although she wouldn't remember me now G D C G Sometimes I wonder where she can be. D C G D C G D C G D C G I can remember the first girl I kissed it was D C Christine when I was ten. D C G I'd been told we were moving away D C G I thought I'd never see her again D C G Oh don't forget me D C G I'll be back when they let me D C G Before you learn how to lie when you're leaving D C G Love is so much easier then D C G D C G A7 D G D And at school would you believe three hundred boys A7 D And no girls at all A7 D G But you're a fool if you should leave G D A7 D Just think of the joys of rugby football G D A G D And prep in the morning and Brylcream and acne G D C A And cross-country running to kill evil thoughts D G I'm surprised that I survived D A7 C G I ran ten thousand miles with my back to the wall. D C G D C G D C G D I can remember the first girl that I made love to C G It was in a park D C G In the lower pleasure gardens in Bournemouth D C G In summer just after dark D C G D C G My mind was reeling. Oh what a feeling. D C G I missed the bus and walked twelve miles home D C G D C G D C And it really didn't seem far. G D A G D And all through my seventeenth summer D A G A7 D Running together from crowds and ties D A G A7 D Taking our clothes off and feeling each other D A G A7 D With fingers and senses and mouths and eyes, G D G D Incurring the glances of old disapproval G D C A7 From elderly local inhabitant's eyes D A G A D Oh time time we hardly even knew you D A7 G A7 D You didn't touch us with your lies. C G D C G D C G In the halcyon days of my late adolescence D C G My goal seemed clearly in sight D C G Playing electric guitar with a beat group D G We set the ballrooms alight D C G Camping it up for the dyed blonde receptionists D C G Who told us we were al-ri-yi-yight D C G On an ego trip for a teenage superstar D C G D C G D C G D C G On thirty shillings a night. D C G And so it fell that I came up to London D C G To look for fortune and fame D C G Starry eyed in my seaside successes D C G And much too sure of the game. D C G First girl I met there D C G I thought I'd get there D C G But the first girl was nearly the last girl D C G She left my eyes in the drain.
A7 D A7 D She sat on my floor in the dead of the night G D A7 Rolling a joint and looking round for a light G D G D Her clothes were so black and her face was so white A7 How could I know what was right? G A7 D And I sat all huddled upon my bed G A7 Watching her in my innocence G A7 D And it was no sense at all, but too much sense A G D A7 G D That took me to the bridge of impotence. A7 D A7 D Oh Artaud's anthology lay spread on the floor G D A7 And the thoughts that she gave me, I'd not met before G D G D And stranded half hypnotised, I watched her in awe A7 Of everything that she stood for. G A7 G D And I wanted more than anything to be like her with every sense G A7 D But it was no sense at all, but too much sense A G D That took me to the bridge of impotence. A7 D A7 D She came over to me and kissed me in play G D A7 Taking my hands between her legs as she lay G D G D And she looked in my eyes but I turned them away A7 Finding no words fit to say. G A7 G And I hated myself, but could not move A7 Shattered in my confidence, G A7 D But it was no sense at all, but too much sense A G D That took me to the bridge of impotence. A7 D A7 D Now the stare of the lightbulb tore holes in my brain G D A7 As she got up in silence that hung like a stain G D G D And I wanted to speak, or call out her name, A7 But how could I begin to explain? G A7 G And my prosecuting room still holds a strand of her hair A7 In evidence, G A7 D But it was no sense at all, but too much sense A G D That took me to the bridge of impotence. A7 D A7 D Oh I still think about her when the night fills with rain G D A7 And speaks with its voices uneasy and vain G D G D And I think were I maybe to find her again, A7 Oh I'd probably see her more plain. G A7 G And I should have known she was just like me, A7 It was after all only commonsense, G A7 D But it was no sense at all, but too much sense A G D That took me to the bridge of impotence... Segue to part 3. The chords for each verse are the same.
D C G (repeat) D C G At first I didn't go out much at all D C G I just stayed home in my chains. D C G Picking over the threads of my confidence D C G And searching for the remains. D C G And when I couldn't stand any more of it D C G Going down to a club. D C G Mixing in with the sounds and the crowds D C G D C G D C G I let the music cover me up. D C G And so it came that I stood disillusioned G C G By everything I'd been told. D C G I just didn't believe love existed D C G They were all just digging for gold. D C G Widows and bankers and typists and bus'nessmen D C G Loved each other they said. D C G But all it was though was just a manoeuvre D C G D C G D C G The quickest way into bed. F#7 D A7 D A Bm A And only, lonely, the harlequins and painted phonies Bm F#7 Bm F#7 Pick their ways, through the haze D A7 D Of highs and lows and blues G F# G F# And all that I could do was to pick my way to you G F# Though I didn't tell you G F# You were just a thing to prove Bm Bb+ Bm7 Bm6 Em G Bm But I was hungry when found you, but I'm al-right now. F#7 D A7 D A Bm A They sigh, they lie, the refugees and superhe-roes Bm F#7 Bm F#7 D A7 D On ice, so nice to see you, what's your name? G F# G F# And all that I could do was to say the same to you G F# G F# Take you for the moment, though the moment wasn't true Bm Bb+ Bm Bm6 Em G Bm But I was hungry when I found you and I'm al-right now. Em A7 D Though the street lamp cut through the curfew Em A7 D It shed no light on our mind Em A7 D It would have been so easy to love you G7 F#7 At any other time. F#7 D A7 D A Bm A Only lonely, you came to me the night hung coldly Bm F#7 Bm F#7 D A7 D In your eyes, some other time I might have stayed with you G F# G F# But all that I could do was to turn around to you G F# G F# Thanks for what you gave me now it's time to say "Adieu" Bm Bb+ Bm7 Bm6 Em G Bm Oh I was hungry when I found you but I'm al-right now. Em G Bm Bb+ Ba ba ba alright now D C G (repeat) D C G And so I followed the other's example D C G And jumped into the melee D C G In hunting grounds of Earls Court and Swiss Cottage D C G I did my best to get laid D C G D C G Beer cans and parties, deb girls and arties D C G Bouncing around in the social confusion D C G Missing and making the grade. D C G D C G D G D D (Instrumental Solo - ad lib)
N.C C D
The very first time I must confess
C D
I thought you'd be like all of the rest
C G
And we'd be strangers once again
F A7
By the time we were dressed.
C D
But when you'd smoked your cigarette
C D
And talked of some people that we'd met
C G F A7
I found myself asking was it set, did you have to go yet.
F C7
And so you laughed and then kissed me
Bb C G
And stayed for the whole weekend
F C
Although the bed was so narrow
Bb C7 G D C D
We had to sleep end to end.
C D
And so the weeks passed through my brain
C D
In their dadaistic chain
C G F A7
I found myself seeing you again, and again and again
C D
And all you gave you gave it free
C D
Asking for nothing back from me
C G F A7
You gave yourself unselfishly as a part of me.
F C7
And where I thought that just plucking
Bb C G
The fruits of the bed was enough
F C
It grew to be less like fucking
Bb C7 G D G D7
And more like making love.
G D C G Dsus4 D
Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me
G D C G Dsus4 D
And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me
G D C G Dsus4 D
And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me
G D C G Dsus4
And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.Tablaturas 4— toque pra ver as tabs
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Part I E|---------|
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Part II (slower) E|---------|
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Part III (faster, tempo 1) E|---------|-
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Part IV (Slower) E|---------|
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