Part I E|---------|D C G D I can remember the first girl that I did loveC G It was StephanieD C G D In kindergarten arithmetic classes she used toC G Sit next to meD C G I'd pass her sticky sweets under the tableD C G Where the teacher couldn't seeD C Although she wouldn't remember me nowG D C G Sometimes I wonder where she can be.D C G D C G D C GD C G I can remember the first girl I kissed it wasD C Christine when I was ten.D C G I'd been told we were moving awayD C G I thought I'd never see her againD C G Oh don't forget meD C G I'll be back when they let meD C G Before you learn how to lie when you're leavingD C G Love is so much easier thenD C G D C GA7 D G D And at school would you believe three hundred boysA7 D And no girls at allA7 D G But you're a fool if you should leaveG D A7 D Just think of the joys of rugby footballG D A G D And prep in the morning and Brylcream and acneG D C A And cross-country running to kill evil thoughtsD G I'm surprised that I survivedD A7 C G I ran ten thousand miles with my back to the wall.D C G D C GD C G D I can remember the first girl that I made love toC G It was in a parkD C G In the lower pleasure gardens in BournemouthD C G In summer just after darkD C G D C G My mind was reeling. Oh what a feeling.D C G I missed the bus and walked twelve miles homeD C G D C G D C And it really didn't seem far.G D A G D And all through my seventeenth summerD A G A7 D Running together from crowds and tiesD A G A7 D Taking our clothes off and feeling each otherD A G A7 D With fingers and senses and mouths and eyes,G D G D Incurring the glances of old disapprovalG D C A7 From elderly local inhabitant's eyesD A G A D Oh time time we hardly even knew youD A7 G A7 D You didn't touch us with your lies.C G D C GD C G In the halcyon days of my late adolescenceD C G My goal seemed clearly in sightD C G Playing electric guitar with a beat groupD G We set the ballrooms alightD C G Camping it up for the dyed blonde receptionistsD C G Who told us we were al-ri-yi-yightD C G On an ego trip for a teenage superstarD 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 LondonD C G To look for fortune and fameD C G Starry eyed in my seaside successesD C G And much too sure of the game.D C G First girl I met thereD C G I thought I'd get thereD C G But the first girl was nearly the last girlD C G She left my eyes in the drain.Part II (slower) E|---------|A7 D A7 D She sat on my floor in the dead of the nightG D A7 Rolling a joint and looking round for a lightG D G D Her clothes were so black and her face was so whiteA7 How could I know what was right?G A7 D And I sat all huddled upon my bedG A7 Watching her in my innocenceG A7 D And it was no sense at all, but too much senseA 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 floorG D A7 And the thoughts that she gave me, I'd not met beforeG D G D And stranded half hypnotised, I watched her in aweA7 Of everything that she stood for.G A7 G D And I wanted more than anything to be like her with every senseG A7 D But it was no sense at all, but too much senseA G D That took me to the bridge of impotence.A7 D A7 D She came over to me and kissed me in playG D A7 Taking my hands between her legs as she layG D G D And she looked in my eyes but I turned them awayA7 Finding no words fit to say.G A7 G And I hated myself, but could not moveA7 Shattered in my confidence,G A7 D But it was no sense at all, but too much senseA G D That took me to the bridge of impotence.A7 D A7 D Now the stare of the lightbulb tore holes in my brainG D A7 As she got up in silence that hung like a stainG 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 hairA7 In evidence,G A7 D But it was no sense at all, but too much senseA 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 rainG D A7 And speaks with its voices uneasy and vainG 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 senseA G D That took me to the bridge of impotence... 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The chords for each verse are the same.Part III (faster, tempo 1) E|---------|-D C G (repeat)D C G At first I didn't go out much at allD C G I just stayed home in my chains.D C G Picking over the threads of my confidenceD C G And searching for the remains.D C G And when I couldn't stand any more of itD C G Going down to a club.D C G Mixing in with the sounds and the crowdsD 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 disillusionedG C G By everything I'd been told.D C G I just didn't believe love existedD C G They were all just digging for gold.D C G Widows and bankers and typists and bus'nessmenD C G Loved each other they said.D C G But all it was though was just a manoeuvreD 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 phoniesBm F#7 Bm F#7 Pick their ways, through the hazeD A7 D Of highs and lows and bluesG F# G F# And all that I could do was to pick my way to youG F# Though I didn't tell youG F# You were just a thing to proveBm 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-roesBm 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 youG F# G F# Take you for the moment, though the moment wasn't trueBm 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 curfewEm A7 D It shed no light on our mindEm A7 D It would have been so easy to love youG7 F#7 At any other time.F#7 D A7 D A Bm A Only lonely, you came to me the night hung coldlyBm F#7 Bm F#7 D A7 D In your eyes, some other time I might have stayed with youG F# G F# But all that I could do was to turn around to youG 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 exampleD C G And jumped into the meleeD C G In hunting grounds of Earls Court and Swiss CottageD C G I did my best to get laidD C G D C G Beer cans and parties, deb girls and artiesD C G Bouncing around in the social confusionD C G Missing and making the grade.D C G D C G D G D D (Instrumental Solo - ad lib)Part IV (Slower) E|---------|N.C C D The very first time I must confessC D I thought you'd be like all of the restC G And we'd be strangers once againF A7 By the time we were dressed.C D But when you'd smoked your cigaretteC D And talked of some people that we'd metC 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 meBb C G And stayed for the whole weekendF C Although the bed was so narrowBb C7 G D C D We had to sleep end to end.C D And so the weeks passed through my brainC D In their dadaistic chainC G F A7 I found myself seeing you again, and again and againC D And all you gave you gave it freeC D Asking for nothing back from meC G F A7 You gave yourself unselfishly as a part of me.F C7 And where I thought that just pluckingBb C G The fruits of the bed was enoughF C It grew to be less like fuckingBb 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 meG D C G Dsus4 D And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide meG D C G Dsus4 D And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied meG D C G Dsus4 And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.
Love Chronicles
Al Stewart
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