Intro

Chords: Em D

Bass notes: E-E-G-A-B-B-C-B-A-A-B-A-F#-F#-G-F#

When the cock crows
[D/A] And the wind blows
[D/A] And the primrose of d[D/A]awn
Is at your windows
Moving through the [D/F#]deep
You chase dreams accross your [D/F#]sleep
Scarecrows
[D/A] Waiting at your door

In the last days of the century
Leaning from your balcony
You said: This is how it’s meant to be
Can’t you feel it in the air?
See that light come shining down
All the way to Chinatown
See it shine from miles around
Reflecting everywhere

Black Hill – Al Stewart Capo 2nd fret

part A

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Part B Part C

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Part D (end)

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Hey, won’t you come look at the sunrise
Peeping up into the blue skies
Washing away the morning chill
that hangs like a cloak on the Black Hill[D/F#]
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A cool and educational song by Al Stewart. Laurence Juber does some incredible acoustic
guitar work, unfortunately all I have here are the chords!

Capo: 2

Intro:

C Cm G F x2 (single strum)

C G F C G C x2

I’m here sitting in the wreck of Europe
With a map of Europe
Spread out in a hall of Versailles
And every single nationality and principality
have come for a piece of the pie

I’m sitting in the wreck of Europe
With a map of Europe
And the lines and the borders are gone
We’ve got to do this jigsaw puzzle
It’s an awful muddle
But somehow we’ve got to go on

Lawrence of Arabia is waiting in the wings
He’s got some Arab sheikhs and kings
And we’re in debt to them somehow
Lawrence of Arabia has got this perfect vision
Gonna sell him down the river
There’s no time for him now

I think I’m gonna take a piece of Russia
And a Piece of Germany
And give them to Poland again
I’ll put together Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
And hope that is how they’ll remain

Then I’ll take a bit of Turkey
Then a lot of Turkey
This is all quite a heady affair
There’s Persia and Iraq to pick up
And there’s Churchill’s hiccup
And we can’t leave it up in the air

Woodrow Wilson waves his fourteen points around
And says “The time to act is now
Won’t get this opportunity again”
Woodrow Wilson has his fourteen points
But Clemenceau turns to Lloyd George

And says “You know that
God himself had only ten”

Today I’m carried by a league of notions
By a league of notions
I don’t think I quite understand
I only know from this commotion
There’s a chance that we could turn
The world in the palm of our hands

Voices in the corridors of power
Candles burning hour by hour
Still you know that to the victors go the spoils

Such a great responsibility to make it fair
And there must be some reparations now
And don’t forget the oil

Today I’m carried by a league of notions
By a league of notions
I don’t think I quite understand
I only know from this commotion
There’s a chance that we could turn
The world in the palm of our hands

Pax vobiscum
Wo-Oh, Pax vobiscum

(End on C)

The strumming pattern changes here. Pluck quarter notes on the bass line and single,
percussive strums after each plucked note. Go back to regular strumming at the end of
the phrase (after the Fm, for the C G C)

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Almost Lucy – Al Stewart

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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

Al Stewart
Almost Lucy (1978)
(Al Stewart)

From: “Time Passages”

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INTRO
| Am | % | % | % |

Lucy worked a different club every day
And though she put her mind to it
Her heart was never in it
She stayed around just long enough to get paid
She won’t pass the time with you, she can’t stay a minute
And all these changing faces never bothered her at all
They just existed like a back-drop or a pattern on the wall
Lucy looks like someone who is waiting for a call
She [G/B]knows will come, but n[G/B]o-one else can hea[G/B]r at all

Lucy finds the dressing room and the bar
Hangs her clothes up, hopes tonight
The contract won’t be broken
Well, they kick you round so much when you’re not a star
Make you play all night just for a pittance or a token
But all these imperfections never bothered her at all
She says it sharpens your perception when your back’s against the wall
There’s something that enables her to rise above it all
To s[G/B]hrug it off, just [G/B]when it seems to [G/B]go too far

Hey, hey, hey, I think you almost feel the pain comin’ on inside
Hey, hey, hey, I think you almost feel it now and you don’t know why
You don’t know why, mmmmh

SOLO
| Am | % | C | % | G | Dm | F | % |
| Am | % | C | % | G | Dm | F | % |

The last time that I saw her she had given up the chase
Moved away to California, got a suntan on her face
She said that life was just another time another space
It’s [G/B]over now, she [G/B]learned a lot, it’s [G/B]not a waste

Hey, hey, hey, I think you almost feel the pain comin’ on inside
Hey, hey, hey, I think you almost feel it now and you don’t know why
You don’t know why

Hey, hey, hey, I think you almost feel the pain comin’ on inside
Hey, hey, hey, I think you almost feel it now and you don’t know why
You don’t know why, mmmmh (FADE)

Roads to Moscow- Al Stewart

[Em+9] [Em#5+9]

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B|-----------|-----------|
G|------0----|------0----| repeated
D|----4---4--|----4---4--|
A|--2-------2|--3-------3|
E|0----------|0----------|

Intro solo from Indian Summer live version

6/8 time

(Em+9 Em#5+9 ) x 2

[Em+9] [Em#5+9] [Em+9]

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B|-12-------------------------|-----------------------|----7-8-10-|
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D|Rake------------------------|-----------------------|-----------|
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[Em#5+9] [Em+9] [Em#5+9] [Em+9]

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B|---------10-8-7|--7-8---7--|----7---------------|----------|
G|---------------|9---------9|7h9---9-7h9p7-------|----------|
D|---------------|-----------|--------------10-9-7|7h9-------|
A|---------------|-----------|--------------------|----------|
E|---------------|-----------|--------------------|----------|

[Em#5+9] [Em+9] [Em#5+9] [Em+9][Em#5+9]

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B|-------------5----|-----------|-----------|----------|-----------|
G|---------2-5------|------4-4-4|----2-2-0--|0---------|-----------|
D|-----2-4----------|-----------|----------4|--4-2-----|-----------|
A|-2-3--------------|-----------|-----------|---------2|3s5---2h3p2|
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Em+9 Em#5+9 Em+9 Em#5+9 Em switch to 4/4

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D|------|--------------2-4-5|--------------|---------|---------------|
A|------|------0-2-3-5------|--------------|---------|---------------|
E|------|0-2-3--------------|--------------|---------|---------------|

They crossed over…

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They crossed over the border the hour before dawn

Moving in lines through the day

Most of our planes were destroyed on the ground where they lay

Waiting for orders we held in the wood

Word from the front never came

By evening the sound of the gunfire was miles away

Ah softly we move through the shadows, slip away through the trees

Crossing their lines in the mists in the fields on our hands and our
knees

And all that I ever, was able to see

The fire in the air, glowing red, silhouetting the smoke on the breeze

All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine

Smolensk and Viasma soon fell

By autumn we stood with our backs to the town of Orel

Closer and closer to Moscow they come

Riding the wind like a bell

General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill

Winter brought with her the rains, oceans of mud filled the roads

Glueing the tracks of their tanks to the ground while the sky filled
with snow

And all that I ever, was able to see

The fire in the air glowing red, silhouetting the snow on the breeze.

Ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhhh x4

In the footsteps of Napoleon the shadow figures stagger through the
winter

Falling back before the gates of Moscow, standing in the wings like an
avenger

And far away behind their lines the partisans are stirring in the
forest

Coming unexpectedly upon their outposts growing like a promise

You’ll never know, you’ll never know which way to turn, which way to
look

you’ll never see us

As we’re stealing through the blackness of the night, you’ll never know

you’ll never hear us

And the evening sings in a voice of amber the dawn is surely coming

The morning road leads to Stalingrad and the sky is, softly humming

Two broken tigers on fire in the night

Flicker their souls to the wind

We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin

It’s been almost four years that I’ve carried a gun

At home it will almost be spring

The flames of the tigers are lighting the road to Berlin

Ah, quickly we move through the ruins that bow to the ground

The old men and children they throw out to face us, they can’t slow us
down

And all that I ever, was able to see

The eyes of the city are opening now it’s the end of the dream

Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh x4

I’m coming home, I’m coming home, you can taste it in the wind the war
is over

And I listen to the clicking of the train wheels as we roll across the
border

And they ask me of the time I was caught behind their lines and taken
prisoner

They only held me for a day a lucky break, I say, they turn and listen
closer

I’ll never know, I’ll never know why I was taken from the line

and all the others

To board a special train and journey deep into the heart of holy Russia

And it’s cold and damp in the transit camp and the air is still and
sullen

The pale sun of October whispers the snow will soon be coming

And I wonder when I’ll be home again, and the morning answers, never

And the evening sighs and the steely Russian skies go on

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Year of the Cat

by
Al Stewart

Words & Music by Al Stewart and Peter Wood

INTRO: Cmaj7 D Em (three times)

VERSE 1:
On a morning from a Bogart movie
in a country where they turned back time
you go strolling through the crowd like
Peter Lorre contemplating a crime.
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress
running like a water color in the rain.
Don’t bother asking for explanations.
She’ll just tell you that she came

in the Year of the Cat.

INSTRUMENTAL: (repeat INTRO chords)

VERSE 2:
She doesn’t give you time for questions
as she locks up you arm in hers.
And you follow ‘til your sense of
which direction completely disappears.
By the blue-tiled walls near the market stalls
there’s a hidden door she leads you to.
“These days,” she says, “I feel my life just
like a river running through

the Year of the Cat.”

INSTRUMENTAL: (repeat INTRO chords)

BRIDGE: (lead-in: D instead of D7)
Well she looks at you so cooly
and her eyes shine like the moon

in the sea.
She comes in incense and pathchouli
so you take her to find what’s
[C/E]waiting inside

the Year of the Cat.

INSTRUMENTAL: (repeat INTRO chords a few times)
acoustic/electric guitar solos, piano, sax, etc. (sweet stuff!)

VERSE 3:
Well morning comes and you’re still with her
and the bus and the tourists are gone.
And you’ve thrown away your choice and
lost your ticket so you have to stay on.
But the drumbeat strains of the night
remain in the rhythm of the newborn day.
You know sometime you’re bound to leave her
but for now you’re gonna stay

in the Year of the Cat.

INSTRUMENTAL: (repeat INTRO chords and fade)
piano riffs, sax, etc.

CHORD DIAGRAMS:

Cmaj7 x32000
D xx2320
Em 022000
Am7 x02010
D7 xx0212
Bm xx4432
B xx4442
C x32010
G 320003
F xx3211
C/E xx2010

Copyright 1976 by Unichappel Music, Inc.

What makes this song sound so great is the piano riffs, the sax, the
solos, and, of course, Al Stewart’s voice. But you can still have fun
with this tune singing solo with a sweet soundin’ acoustic in hand.

Tabbed By: Almir Nametak
mokra@starmo.co.uk

Solo has loads of bends and pull off’s so apologies for bad transciption. Anyway, notes
be correct.

Piano Intro
C, Fm x5 C

Guitar Passage:

C, Fm x5 C

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B–11/13-8-9/11-9-898–8—–8—————11/13–8-9/11-9-898–8——8————-|
G——————–10-9-910-9/10-9—————————-10—-910-9/10-9——-|
D———————————–10——————————————10–10-|
A————————————-11-10—————————————11—|
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[C/G]Find another lover tomorrow
Go find another lover today
You’ve been so long on lonely street
C/G c,b,a,
That you’re surely falling into decay

It’s time to reconstruct yourself
Time to test the water again
Well it’s sad to see It’s a tragedy
That you’re wasting away

Look around tell me Is it really
worth the price
That you pay
On Valentina Way

(GUITAR PASSAGE)

[C/G]I don’t think she’s ready to listen
I don’t think she wants to come back
The atmosphere’s too cold in here
C/G c,b,a,
To attract a butterfly like that

I think she took the boat-train out
Maybe caught the night express
She’s got devious lies And chameleon eyes
And she can't care less

Oh, buy yourself a ticket
On anything leaving today
From Valentina Way

(GUITAR PASSAGE)

Bridge:

Oh the rain comes down And shines up the stars
Oh, the night steps out In streetlights and bars To the sounds of guitars

Listen …

Guitar solo over these chords:

C A# G# F D# A# G# X2

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G—-555—————–5-3———8———-10——————–|
D—————————–6-5–68-8—–1012———————-|
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E—–15-13-11-10-11-10——————8——11——-13——-20–|
B———————–11—————8——11——-13———–|
G————————–13-12——3-5—-5-8—–8-10———17–|
D——————————-13—————————15-17—-|
A———————————————————————|
E———————————————————————|

GUITAR PASSAGE UNTIL FADES AWAY…..

Lord Salisbury by Al Stewart
From “Sparks of Ancient Light”

Lord Salisbury said to me
G A
“Though we spend our lives in isolation
Girdled ‘round by the Emerald Sea
G A D
No fear shall we know”.
Look away, look away, look away
D
To the lamp-lit square
At the ebb of May
Look away, look away, look away
D A D
For our survival

Lord Salisbury takes his time
G A
The government sits in contemplation
All is ordered and in its prime
G A D
No fear shall we know
Look away, look away, look away
D
To the fog-bound ship in the icy bay
Look away, look away, look away
D A D
For our survival

Bm F#
On the mantelpiece is a silver clock
Bm G
And it counts the hours and they won’t turn back
Bm F#
The evening set and the room forgets
G E A
The day that went before
Bm F#
And through my window
G E A
Iron wheels on a cobbled mews
Bm F# E A
You will know changes soon

Lord Salisbury reads the news
And puts the paper on the table
Many paths will be ours to choose
No fear shall we know
Look away, look away, look away
To the fleets of steel and the waves of grey
Look away, look away, look away
For our survival

The Queen is old but she lingers still
Like the fading ring of a distant bell
And Oscar Wilde in his prison cell
Laments a brighter day
And in some window a red flag flies
In a meeting room
You will know changes soon

Lord Salisbury said to me
“Though we spend our lives in isolation
Girdled ‘round by the Emerald Sea
No fear shall we know”.
Look away, look away, look away
To the lonesome cry of the modern day
Look away, look away, look away
For our survival

Transcribed by jester71.com… Have a look at my website

Strange Girl -Al Stewart Capo 2
Intro: Am G7 Em7 F7 (4x)
You’re a strange girl, you come from a strange family
You’re a strange girl, I don’t understand your vanity
Your mother’s taking pills although she’s looking to escape
Your uncle’s in the County Jail for statutory rape
Just another runner never made it to the tape
Your cousin gets his kicks setting everything on fire
Your little brother always lets the air out of my tyres
Your sister wants to prove that she’s an object of desire
You’re a strange girl, you come from a strange family
You’re a strange girl, I don’t understand your fantasy

Your father’s a collector and his things are a delight
He likes cameras and binoculars and everything in sight,
He collects them in a wagon in the middle of the night
Every holiday’s a nightmare and it’s giving me the chills
Everybody ends up fighting, I remember it still
The only thing that they agree on is it’s me they want to kill

You’re a strange girl, you come from a strange family
You’re a strange girl, I don’t understand your vanity

I think we ought to break up, I could really use the rest
Everything I like to say is something you detest
But every time I try to leave you say you love me best
I was looking for some mystery, I thought you’d be the girl
I really must admit you were like nothing in this world
I finally got the oyster but I never found the pearl

You’re a strange girl, you come from a strange family
You’re a strange girl, I don’t understand your vanity
You’re a strange girl, you come from a strange family
You’re a strange girl, I think you’re headed for calamity
Strange strange…girl
Strange strange…girl
Strange strange…Most peculiar!
Strange strange…girl
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Tuning half step down (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)
One day you fell down from the sky
You overthought things, forgot how to fly
You`re an angry bird walking in circles
All alone, angry bird

Now you don`t belong, you stagger `round
Don`t like the air, don`t like the ground
Angry bird walking in circles
All alone, angry bird

Radical penguins led you astray
You say that wings are so pass
You`re an angry bird walking in circles
No way out, angry bird

Now you say it`s pointless, you say you`re cursed
You fill the night with sarcastic chirps
You`re an angry bird walking in circles
No way out, angry bird

You`ve fallen in with the avian fringe
They fill your head with thoughts of revenge
You`re a bird in name only
Pretty lonely, angry bird

On the moonlight branches, on a summer`s night
You could take your chances, you could take flight
Angry bird walking in circles
No way out, angry bird

Your sun is sinking it`s so absurd
What were you thinking, angry bird?

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