Theme For An Imaginary Western chords by Jack Bruce

Chords with lyrics

Song:  Theme for An Imaginary Western
Artist: Jack Bruce (1969)/ Mountain (1970)
Written: Jack Bruce & Pete Brown
Album:  Songs For A augmentedA Tailor (1969)
URL:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eszCRHkI9zA
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_for_an_Imaginary_Western
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l_x0xH9fLM
Tempo:  4|4 Moderato
Tuning: Standard

Chords:
     EADGBe
G+G    320033
Gmaj7/F# 220033
E minorEm    022000
A augmentedA    X02220
FF    133211
C/GC/G   332010
A7/GA7/G   302220 (best played, as a partial barre)
Em7/D  XX0000

INTRO:
|G+G  G/F# |E minorEm    |
|G+G  G/F# |E minorEm    |


VERSE 1:
      G+G  Gmaj7/F# E minorEm
When the wagons leave the city,
      A augmentedA         F?
For the forest and further on.
     G+G   Gmaj7/F# Em?
Painted wagons of the morning,
   A augmentedA             C/G?
Dusty roads where they have gone.
?

VERSE 2:
     G+G  Gmaj7/F#     E minorEm ?
Sometimes travelin' through the darkness,
    A augmentedA     A/GA/G   F?
At the summer comin' home.
    G+G Gmaj7/F#   E minorEm   ?
Fallen faces by the wayside,
Em7/D   C/GC/G   Am7Am7    G?
Looked as if they might have known.?


CHORUS 1:
    E minorEm          Bm?
Oh, the sun was in their eyes,
    E minorEm        Bm?
And the desert that's dry.
    C/GC/G   G?I
n the country town,
     E minorEm    A augmentedA   C/G?
Where the laughter sounds.

VERSE 3:
      G+G  Gmaj7/F#  E minorEm
?Oh, the dancing and the singing,
    A augmentedA     A/GA/G     F?
Oh, the music when they played.
    G+G Gmaj7/F#   E minorEm ?
Oh, the fires that they started,
    A augmentedA       C/G?
Oh, the girls with no regret.


VERSE 4:
        G+G   Gmaj7/F#
Sometimes they found it,
          E minorEm
Sometimes they kept it.
   A augmentedA    A7/GA7/G  FF
Often lost it on the way.
     G+G Gmaj7/F#    E minorEm
For each other to possess it,
Em7/D   C/GC/G   Am7Am7  G+G
Sometimes right inside of day.


CHORUS 2:
    E minorEm          Bm?
Oh, the sun was in their eyes,
    E minorEm        Bm?
And the desert that's dry.
    C/GC/G   G?
In the country town,
     E minorEm    A augmentedA   C/G?
Where the laughter sounds.


INSTRUMENTAL:
|C/GC/G     |G+G Gmaj7/F# |
|E minorEm     |A augmentedA A/GA/G   |
|FF      |G+G Gmaj7/F# |
|E minorEm     |A augmentedA C/GC/G   |

|G+G Gmaj7/F# |E minorEm     |
|A augmentedA A/GA/G   |FF      |
|G+G Gmaj7/F# |E minorEm     |
|A augmentedA A/GA/G   |FF      |

CODA:(Fade)
|C/GC/G Am7Am7  |E minorEm     |


[End]


1. "Theme for an Imaginary Western" is a song written by Jack Bruce and Pete Brown. The song is
sometimes referred to as "Theme from an Imaginary Western." It has been performed by many artists,
including Mountain, Jack Bruce, Leslie West, Colosseum, Greenslade, DC3 and Johan Asherton.
  The song originally appeared on Bruce's Songs for a Tailor album in 1969. The lyrics by Pete Brown
are mentioned in Brown's autobiography "White Rooms and Imaginary Westerns" (ISBN 978-1906779207)
as being in reference to Bruce's erstwhile bandmates Dick Heckstall-Smith and Graham Bond of
The Graham Bond Organisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_for_an_Imaginary_Western
2. It has been creatively merged with Jack?s solo vocals and Leslie West?s unique guitar style,
but it is incorrectly attributed to Leslie West on YouTube, by MISTY2008.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PTUpzsDkuA
3. This is my interpretation of Jack Bruce?s original, which differs from other versions.