Ammonia Avenue chords by The Alan Parsons Project

Ammonia Avenue


Piano intro
|Gb6    Ab   |Db/F   Gb  |Ebm   F   |Bbm  F/C Db6 Bbm |

add gut guitar
|Gb6    Ab   |Db/F   Gb  |Ebm  Ab6   |Bbm Eb/Bb Bbm |

     Bbm          F/A     F/C
Is there no sign of light as we stand in the darkness?

Db6     F/C  Bbm F/C  Db6 F/C
Watching the sun arise

     Bbm          F/A     F/C
Is there no sign of life as we gaze at the waters?

Db6   Ab6    Bbm  F/C Db6 Bbm
Into the strangers eyes

  Gb6   Ab Db/F    Gb
And who are we   to criticize

Ebm        F        Bbm F/C Db6 Bbm
   or scorn the things that they do?

  Gb6   Ab    Db/F   Gb   Ebm  Ab6  Bbm Eb/Bb Bbm
For we shall seek and we shall find Am monia Aven ue

   Bbm            F/A     F/C
If we call for the proof and we question the answers

Db6   F/C     Bbm  F/C  Db6 F/C
Only the doubt will grow

    Bbm           F/A   F/C
Are we blind to the truth or a sign to believe in?

Db6   Ab6    Bbm  F/C Db6 Bbm
Only the wise will know

  Gb6   Ab     Db/F  Gb
And word by word they handed down

   Ebm Ebm/Db F/C  F/A  Bbm F/C Db6 Bbm
the light that  shines to  day

  Gb6    Ab   Db/F   Gb  Ebm      F
And those who came at first to scoff,   remained behind to

oboe break

|Gb6    |Db/F   |E6   |Ab/Eb
pray.......

  Gb6    Ab   Db/F   Gb    Ebm    F    Bbm Ebm Bbm
Yes those who came at first to scoff, re mained be hind to pray


 gut guitar with synth flutes

|Bbm  |   |Ab6   |   |Gbmaj7   |    |Ab6   |    |


|Bbm  |   |Ab6   |   |Gbmaj7   |    |Ab6   |    |

..elec. Guitar:

|Eb  |   |F   |    |Eb     |    |F    |    |

add orches.

|Bbm  |   |Ab6   |   |Gbmaj7   |    |Ab6   |    |


|Bbm  |   |Ab6   |   |Gbmaj7   |    |Ab6   |    |


..elec. Guitar:

|Eb  |   |F    |   |Eb     |    |F    |    |


|Bbm  |   |Ab6   |   |Gbmaj7   |    |Ab6   |    |


|Bbm  |   |Ab6   |   |Gbmaj7   |    |Ab6   |    |


orchestra:


|Bbm   |Ab6    |Gbmaj7   |Ab6    |


|Gbmaj7  |Db/F   |E6     |Ab/Eb   |


|Abm/Eb  |Eb    |Ebm    |Bbm    |     |


     Bbm             F/A      F/C
When you can't hear the rhyme and you can't see the reason

 Db6      F/C   Bbm  F/C  Db6 F/C
Why should the hope re main?

   Bbm           F/A       F/C
For a man will be tired and his soul will grow weary


Db6    Ab6   Bbm F/C  Db6 Bbm
Living his life in vain


  Gb6   Ab  Db/F      Gb
And who are we     to justi fy the


Ebm    F   Bbm  F/C  Db6  Bbm
right in all we do?


 Gb6  Ab   Db/F  Gb   Ebm  Ab6  Bbm  Ebm/Bb Bbm
Until we seek until we find Am monia Aven ue


Gb6       Db/F  E6        Ab/Eb
Through all the doubt    somehow they knew

  Gb6   Ab     Db/F   Gb
And stone by stone they built it high


  Ebm Ebm/Db    F/C F/A    Bbm   F/C  Db6 Bbm
Until       the sun    broke through


 Gb6  Ab   Db/F  Gb     Ebm  Ab6  Bbsus4
A ray of hope, a shining light  Am monia Aven  ue