From: [email protected] (adi)
Here are some chords i play.
Pattern for both songs:
/A A /
Strumming the chords: 1 2 & 3 & 4 5 & 6 & two times per bar (6/8).
So Long, Marianne
Booklet Greatest Hits:
«I began this on Aylmer Street in Montreal and finished it a yaer or so
Later at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. I didn’t think I was saying goodbye
But I guess I was. She gave me many songs, and she has given songs to others too.
She is a Muse. A lot of people I know think that there is nothing more important
Than making a song. Fortunately, this belief arises infrequently in their
Conversation.»
/A / /Bm / /
Come over to the window, my little darling,
D /D /A /
I’d like to try to read your palm.
G / /D /
I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy,
F#m / /E Esus4/
Before I let you take me home.
E E7 /A / / F#m /
Now so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began to
/E Esus4 /E E7 /E Esus4/
Laugh and cry and cry and
E E7 /A /Asus4 /A /Asus4 /A
Laugh about it all again.
/A etc.
Well you know that I love to live with you,
But you make me forget so very much.
I forget to pray for the angels
And then the angels forget to pray for us.
Now so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began …
We met when we were almost young
Deep in the green lilac park.
You held on to me like I was a crucifix,
As we went kneeling through the dark.
Oh so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began …
Your letters they all say that you’re beside me now.
Then why do I feel alone?
I’m standing on a ledge and your fine spider web
Is fastening my ankle to a stone.
Now so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began …
For now I need your hidden love.
I’m cold as a new razor blade.
You left when I told you I was curious,
I never said that I was brave.
Oh so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began …
Oh, you are really such a pretty one.
I see you’ve gone and changed your name again.
And just when I climbed this whole mountainside,
To wash my eyelids in the rain!
Oh so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began …
(last two verses not on CD)
Oh your eyes, well I forgot Your eyes
Your body’s at home in every sea.
How come you gave away your news to everyone
That you said was a secret for me.
Oh so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began …
If you leave, where will I keep you then
In my heart as some men say
But I who was born to love everyone
Why should I keep you so far away?
Oh so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began …
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There is a french version of this song by Georges Chelon
Here is the first verse:
J`‚tais je pense comme un boh‚mian
Et je lisais les lignes de ta main
Tu as tu‚ mon ѓme de gitan
Et je t’en veux, t’en loue en m€me temps
Adieu Marianne
Le temps vient o— nous allons rire
Pleurer et rire pleurer puis en rire … nouveua
If You are interested in more i’ll try to type them all.
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Lady Midnight
Booklet Greatest Hits:
«This was finished in the Henry Hudson Hotel on 58th Street in New York.
Yafa was doing tricks with her silver bangles. I owe her the last verse.
It was recorded in Nashville. The voice is uncertain. In those days it
Took me fifteen minutes to decide whether or not I should wear my cap
When I went outside and a half hour whether or not I should take it off
When I came back.»
/G /G7 /F /C
I came by my-self to a very crowded place;
/G /G7 /F /C
I was looking for someone who had lines in her face.
/ /C7 /F /F
I found her there but she was past all con-cern;
/C /F Em/Dm /Dm
I asked her to hold me, said, «Lady, un-fold me,»
Em7/C /F
But she scorned me and she told me
/G /G7 /C
I was dead and I could never re-turn.
Well, I argued all night like so many have before,
Saying, «Whatever you give me, I seem to need so much more.»
Then she pointed at me where I kneeled on her floor,
She said, «Don’t try to use me or slyly refuse me,
Just win me or lose me,
It is this that the darkness is for.»
I cried, «Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear that you grow old,
The stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold.»
«If we cry now,» she said, «it will just be ignored.»
So I walked through the morning, sweet early morning,
I could hear my lady calling,
F /G /G7 /C /
«You’ve won me, you’ve won me, my lord,
/G /G7 /C
You’ve won me, you’ve won me, my lord,
/C /G /G7 /C
Yes, you’ve won me, you’ve won me, my lord,
/C /G /G7 /C
Ah, you’ve won me, you’ve won me, my lord,
/C /G /G7 /C
Ah, you’ve won me, you’ve won me, my lord.»
Have a nice time with playing the songs
Adi
