Turn Of The Tide (1981) chords by Barclay James Harvest

• Tuning: Standard tuning
• Difficulty: Beginner

Album - Turn of The Tide (1981)
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 1.  Waiting On The Borderline
 2.  How Do You Feel Now?
 3.  Back To The Wall
 4.  Highway For Fools
 5.  Echoes And Shadows
 6.  Death Of A City
 7.  I`m Like A Train
 8.  Doctor Doctor
 9.  Life Is For Living
10.  In Memory Of The Martyrs


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                     Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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                     Song - Waiting On The Borderline
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                           Track 1
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                       Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard

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CAPO 3rd FRET
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INTRO
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Em C D Bm X2


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VERSE 1
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Em        C
Going down with a troubled mind
D              Bm
You leave me waiting on the border line
Em         C
I`m thinking it`s a waste of time
D        Bm
Taking me for a ride


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VERSE 2
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Em         C
You say that you`re good for me
D          Bm
Was a time when I`d let it be
Em         C
But now there`s no reality
D           Bm
Do you think that I`m blind


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PRE CHORUS
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Em        G
Get back to your own side of the highway
F#m         C
Straying across the line
Em         G
  I know you`re a heart breaking lover
F#m       C
Isn`t any other time to take a ride


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CHORUS
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C        Em
Get back in the long grass
C        Em
Get back to the street
C        Bm
Go take another walk
       Em
Don`t bother me


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BREAK
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Em C D Bm


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VERSE 3
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Em       C
Good loving is hard to find
D          Bm
You keep playing the same old rhyme
Em          C
Got the feeling that you`re gonna be
D         Bm
Traveling down the line


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VERSE 4
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Em      C
You play in another key
D              Bm
Go tell your friends that I set you free
Em        C
I know the way it used to be
D          Bm
Watching you hitch a ride


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PRE CHORUS
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Em        G
Get back to your own side of the highway
F#m         C
Straying across the line
Em         G
  I know you`re a heart breaking lover
F#m       C
Isn`t any other time to take a ride


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CHORUS
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C        Em
Get back in the long grass
C        Em
Get back to the street
C        Bm
Go take another walk
       Em
Don`t bother me


SYNTH
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Em C D Bm X8

    Fade Out...........


ENJOY........



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                     Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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                       Song - How Do You Feel
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                           Track 2
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                        Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard

INTRO - Piano
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C G C G F G


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VERSE 1
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C
How do you feel now
G            Am
We`ve got a reason to go on
G    F
  Newly born
Dm              G
Seems like I`ve waited for a lifetime
Am     C
But honey I believed in you

F G Am Bm


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VERSE 2
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C          G
When I saw her face  I had to cry
       Am
I don`t know why
G     F
  Is she real
Dm              G
Seems like I`ve waited for a lifetime
Am     C
But honey I believed in you
  Am       F
To make my dreams all come true
      C   Bm G
We`ve got a child


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CHORUS
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Am     G        Dm
I tried and tried to talk it over
Am        G        Dm
Seemed like we`d waited a million years
F    G            C
Then you conceived our child was born
      F
And we were one
Dm
Picked her up put her by your side
G
Saw the smile that you couldn`t hide


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SAX
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C Bm G Am G F
Dm G Am C Am F
C Bm


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CHORUS
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Am     G        Dm
I tried and tried to talk it over
Am        G        Dm
Seemed like we`d waited a million years
F    G            C
Then you conceived our child was born
      F
And we were one
Dm
Picked her up put her by your side
G
Saw the smile that you couldn`t hide


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VERSE 3
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C
How do you feel now
G            Am
We`ve got a reason to go on
G    F
  Newly born
Dm              G
Seems like I`ve waited for a lifetime
Am     C
But honey I believed in you
  Am       G
To make my dreams all come true
F      C
We`ve got a child


Am F C

  Repeat and Fade Out...........



ENJOY...........


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                     Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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                       Song - Back To The Wall
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                           Track 3
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                       Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard


INTRO
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Am G Am


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VERSE 1
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Am
Stranger at the gate, let him in
Am
Stranger at the gate, let him in
G
Stranger at the gate, let him in
Am
Won`t you let him in?


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VERSE 2
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Am
He`s been waiting on the other side
Am
He`s been waiting on the other side
G
He`s been waiting for the turn of the tide
Am
Won`t you let him in?


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PRE CHORUS
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F                 Am
Promises leave you with nothing to show
F                 Am Em
Destiny leaves you with nowhere to go


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CHORUS
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Am
Back to the wall

Have you seen the light

Is your soul worth saving
F
Back to the wall

Can you pay the price

Then your life is waiting
Dm
Down by the shore

We can help you no more
Am        G      Am
Standing with our back to the wall


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SOLO - Am C Am G Am X2
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BRIDGE
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Am
Is your soul worth saving
 (Stranger at the gate, let him in)
 (Stranger at the gate, let him in)
G
Have you seen the light
Am
 (Stranger at the gate, let him in, won`t you let him in)
Am
Then your life is waiting
 (He`s been waiting on the other side)
 (He`s been waiting on the other side)
G
Can you pay the price
 (He`s been waiting for the turn of the tide
Am
 (Won`t you let him in)


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PRE CHORUS
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F                 Am
Promises leave you with nothing to show
F                 Am Em
Destiny leaves you with nowhere to go


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CHORUS
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Am
Back to the wall

Have you seen the light

Is your soul worth saving
F
Back to the wall

Can you pay the price

Then your life is waiting
Dm
Down by the shore

We can help you no more
Am        G      Am
Standing with our back to the wall

Yea Yea Yea

Am   G Am   G Am   G Am


ENJOY..........


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                     Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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                       Song - Highway For Fools
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                           Track 4
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                        Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard


INTRO
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E       G

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VERSE 1
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A
You got the groove

I got to move
              G
Cause suddenly something`s unreal
A
I got to go

Get up and go
                E
`Cause you ain`t the way that I feel


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CHORUS
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E F      G  A
I know what I like
E      F     G  A
And it ain`t looking at you
E      F    G  A
If I have to believe
       Bm
I believe in myself and nobody else
              E
Your kind of love ain`t for real

E      G

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VERSE 2
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A
I got the wheels

I got the deals
             G
But suddenly you ain`t so cool
A
Great God above it`s diamond love
              E
But that kind of rock don`t appeal


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CHORUS
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E F      G  A
I know what I like
E      F     G  A
And it ain`t looking at you
E      F    G  A
If I have to believe
       Bm
I believe in myself and nobody else
              E
Your kind of love ain`t for real


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SOLO
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E
D A D A Bm E


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VERSE 3
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A
I got to change it`s feeling strange
               E
And strange is a highway for fools
A
If it`s diamond love that makes you feel good
               E
Then that kind of love I can steal


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CHORUS
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E F      G  A
I know what I like
E      F     G  A
And it ain`t looking at you
E      F    G  A
If I have to believe
       Bm
I believe in myself and nobody else
              E
Your kind of love ain`t for real


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SOLO
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E..............

A ............

E.............

A.............



ENJOY.........



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                     Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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                      Song - Echoes And Shadows
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                           Track 5
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                        Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard


INTRO - Piano
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VERSE 1
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F      G     Am
Here lie the towers so tall
F       D     Am
Strange, they tumble and fall
C            G
Time softly playing the chord
           C
Could be lost in the void
G          F
Do your eyes see it all


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VERSE 2
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F       G        Am
Gone like the dreams that you made
F    G   Am
Sad how memory fades
C           G
Drawn by the mystical sight
            Am
There`s a voice in the night
     G      F
And your eyes see it all

F G Am X2


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CHORUS
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Am
Stay with me
D
All I want from you
   Am
Just stay with me
D
All I want to do
  E
Is look in your eyes
  G
And sail on through the night
C
Echoes and shadows
G
Drift through tomorrow`s
F
Dreams that you follow
C
Echoes and shadows
G
Drift through tomorrow`s
F
Dreams that you follow
    Am
In the dark


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VERSE 3
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F      G       Am
Fools are entranced by the dawn
    F    G     Am
But the wise man misses it all
  C            G
He laughs and the pages are torn
          Am
While the intellect scorns
   G      F
As he clutches the straws

F G Am


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CHORUS
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Am
Stay with me
D
All I want from you
   Am
Just stay with me
D
All I want to do
  E
Is look in your eyes
  G
And sail on through the night

C
Echoes and shadows
G
Drift through tomorrow`s
F
Dreams that you follow

C
Echoes and shadows
G
Drift through tomorrow`s
F
Dreams that you follow

C
Echoes and shadows
G
Drift through tomorrow`s
F
Dreams that you follow

C G F X2
Fade Out...........


ENJOY............



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                     Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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                        Song - Death Of A City
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                           Track 6
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                        Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard



VERSE 1
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 D                C
I look down the street but there`s no one there
    G             D
In the cold, in the dark, in the night air
 D            C
I call out for life but my heart feels despair
      G           D
There`s no sign of a light in the cold dismal night


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VERSE 2
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  D             C
The lights have all gone, the clothes are all torn
  G            D
The people are gone but the victory`s won
 D             C
I call out for life but it`s after the day
    G            D
Now the people are gone just the city alone

D C D X2

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CHORUS
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D             C
Eyes look from the second floor
          G
Down to the street below
           D   C
Calm now the wind is slow
D            C
See posters once on the wall
C           G
Now washed away in the rain
       D
Peeling from buildings tall

G

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VERSE 3
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   D              C
I`ll follow you friends to where life never ends
     G           D
Make our mistakes again as our life lines descend
D             C
Time is like dust and the dust is like snow
   G            D
As it covers the ruins of the life that you know


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CHORUS
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D               C
Trees once green now turned to stone
            G
Objects that look like ghosts
        D   C
All of them overgrown
D             C
Mist all sight and mind is blurred
           G
Lie on your back and cry
          D
Words uttered never heard

G

VERSE 4
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 D                C
I look down the street but there`s no one there
    G             D
In the cold, in the dark, in the night air
 D            C
I call out for life but my heart feels despair
      G           D
There`s no sign of a light in the cold dismal night


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VERSE 5
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  D             C
The lights have all gone, the clothes are all torn
  G            D
The people are gone but the victory`s won
 D             C
I call out for life but it`s after the day
    G            D
Now the people are gone just the city alone


D


ENJOY...........



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                     Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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                       Song - I`m Like A Train
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                           Track 7
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                        Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard


INTRO - Piano
C D  C G A D G D C G
A D

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VERSE 1
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G        C
Look around and cry aloud
D               C      G
Seems so much is happening but I have found
A         D
When you awake the sky will shine
G     D   C  G
Even on a cloudy day

A
D
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VERSE 2
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G        C
Want to be where I can see
D              C     G
Oh, so much is happening to you and me
  A         D        G      D     Em   G   A D
Oh, will it end, will day turn black? Will we ever see things right? Oh no no
                  G
And how can we make it through the night?


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SYNTH
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C G C G C D
G D C G D C G

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CHORUS
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      G      C
I`m like a train that`s jumping the track
                      G
Caught up in the slide and I`ll never come back
         G     C
I turn around and look for a way
    C                 G
Nothing that I can do, nothing that I can say


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BRIDGE
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D            C  G
What a life I was living before
D         C      G
Hard to see if you can`t find a door
D                     C    D
Seen the turning, know it`s burning me to be with you


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CHORUS
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      G      C
I`m like a train that`s jumping the track
                      G
Caught up in the slide and I`ll never come back
         G     C
I turn around and look for a way
    C                 G
Nothing that I can do, nothing that I can say


      G      C
I`m like a train that`s jumping the track
                      G
Caught up in the slide and I`ll never come back
         G     C
I turn around and look for a way
    C                 G
Nothing that I can do, nothing that I can say


      G      C
I`m like a train that`s jumping the track
                      G
Caught up in the slide and I`ll never come back
         G     C
I turn around and look for a way
    C                 G
Nothing that I can do, nothing that I can say


      G      C
I`m like a train that`s jumping the track
                      G
Caught up in the slide and I`ll never come back
         G     C
I turn around and look for a way
    C                 G
Nothing that I can do, nothing that I can say


SYNTH
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G  C  G  C

Fade Out.....



ENJOY..........



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                     Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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                        Song - Doctor Doctor
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                           Track 8
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                        Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard

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CAPO 2nd FRET
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INTRO
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Am F X3


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VERSE 1
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Am      G
Doctor doctor tell me if you can
    F
What is wrong with me
    Am
I can`t seem to find the key
Am        G
Doctor doctor I`m begging on my knees
     F
Won`t you tell me please
         Am
What could be my malady


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CHORUS
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     G          Am
When I`m down feeling kind of low
G    F           E
I don`t want to be the last to know
     Am  G
When I`m down crawling cross the floor
F          F
I don`t want to be, I can`t stand to be
  E
The last to know


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BRIDGE
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C       F
Doctor doctor help me through the day
    G             C
Give me something natural I can depend on
F         G
Doctor doctor it`s something that I need
    Am
It`s a natural panacea
    F
Like a cure for every fear
G
It`s some of her sweet love
Am
Mixed up with her young blood
F
True love and devotion
G
What a wonderful potion
  F    C
Tonight, tonight

F E F G


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SYNTH
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E F G Am Ab C Bb C


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VERSE 2
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Am      G
Doctor doctor why am I alone
     F
Listening to my heart
          Am
Beating through the cold dark night
Am        G
Doctor doctor I`m shaking in the gloom
      F
Could this be defeat
             Am
Please don`t stop, don`t miss a beat



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CHORUS
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     G          Am
When I`m down feeling kind of low
G    F           E
I don`t want to be the last to know
     Am  G
When I`m down crawling cross the floor
F          F
I don`t want to be, I can`t stand to be
  E
The last to know


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BRIDGE
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C       F
Doctor doctor help me through the day
    G             C
Give me something natural I can depend on
F         G
Doctor doctor it`s something that I need
    Am
It`s a natural panacea
    F
Like a cure for every fear
G
It`s some of her sweet love
Am
Mixed up with her young blood
F
True love and devotion
G
What a wonderful potion
  F    C
Tonight, tonight



ENJOY..........



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                     Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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                      Song - Life Is For Living
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                           Track 9
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                       Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard


INTRO
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C G C G C G D


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VERSE 1
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G
You and me
      C    G
Our life is drifting along
C      G       D
Watching the world as it`s singing it`s song
G
High above
      C     G
Someone is calling to me
C      G     D
Life is for living and living is free


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VERSE 2
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G
You to me
       C     G
Are like the sun in the sky
C      G      D
See how you fly you have wings of your own
G
You and me
       C      G
Our love will last without end


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VERSE 3
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C       G       D
Ride with the wind won`t you follow me home
G            C     G
Turn around and see the circles we spin
     C     G     D    G
And we`re taking our chances on where we begin
G
Up above
      C     G
The rain is falling on me
C      G     D     G
Life is for living and living is free


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VERSE 4
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G
You to me
       C     G
Are like the sun in the sky
G      D             G
See how you fly you have wings of your own
G
You and me
       C      G
Our love will last without end
C       G       D
Ride with the wind won`t you follow me home

G C G C G D X2


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CHORUS
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D
Taking up time
     C           Bm    C
Trying to write a line till the break of day
D
Given a sign
    C
Can you make it rhyme
    Bm   C
Tell me what to say
D           C          Bm   C
Making it fine can you ease my mind help me drift away

G C G C G D X2


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VERSE 5
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G
Turn around
      C     G
And see the circles we spin
C     G     D
Taking our chances on where we begin
G
Up above
      C     G
The rain is falling on me
C      G     D     G
Life is for living and living is free


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VERSE 6
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G
You to me
       C     G
Are like the sun in the sky
G      D             G
See how you fly you have wings of your own
G
You and me
       C      G
Our love will last without end
C       G       D
Ride with the wind won`t you follow me home

G C G C G D X4

  Fade Out.......


ENJOY..........



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                     Artist - Barclay James Harvest
                     ********************************
                     Song - In Memory of the Martyrs
                    *********************************
                           Track 10
                          **********
                        Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard


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CAPO 1st FRET
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E

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VERSE 1
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E
Life is like a tall ship
     D
Drifting gently from the shore
A
Time is like a fair wind
    E
With a lifetime to explore
  E
The beauty that surrounds you
  D
Was meant to be adored
  A
The problems that surround you
   E
Were meant to be ignored
    D    A      E
We are love, we are, we are love
    D    A      E
We are love, we are, we are love


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VERSE 2
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E
I dreampt I held a baby
 D
I dreampt I held a child
 A
I dreampt I held a young man
 E
A prisoner in my hand
  E
My hand I could not open
  D
The man grew up inside
 A
A prisoner without reason
   E
Just on the other side
    D    A      E
We are love, we are, we are love
    D    A      E
We are love, we are, we are love


D A E X2


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VERSE 3
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  E
The blood red rose of summer
   D
Grows elegant and tall
  A
In memory of the green grass
 E
Beyond the guardian wall
  E
The green grass grows forever
 D
Beneath the bloody sky
  A
In memory of the martyrs
    E
She`ll cover when they die
    D    A      E
We are love, we are, we are love
    D    A      E
We are love, we are, we are love
    D    A      E
We are love, we are, we are love
    D    A      E
We are love, we are, we are love


D A E X5


ENJOY........