Chords with lyrics
🎸 Intro:
B minorBm A augmentedA G+G B minorBm
Bm A augmentedA G+G B minorBm
🎸 Verse:
B minorBm A augmentedA
We were young together once upon a long lost time
G+G F# minorF#m A augmentedA
Apple trees were blossoming and spring was on my mind
B minorBm A augmentedA
Guitars on MacDougal Street, sandals in the snow
G+G B minorBm E MajorE E MajorE
When I fell in love with you I was the last to know
B minorBm A augmentedA
Down in Greenwich Village we would scatter through the nights
G+G B minorBm A augmentedA
Singing at The Bitter End under all those lights
G+G F# minorF#m
Making love in the single beds, you always left by dawn
G+G F# minorF#m D MajorD D B minorBm Bm
Climbing on the Greyhound bus, (where you) where you would be alone
🎸 Verse:
B minorBm A augmentedA
Singing in MacArthur Park, singing in Cheyenne
G+G B minorBm
Singing in the wilderness where the truths began
B minorBm A augmentedA
We were gypsies in the wind, learning just to fly
G+G B minorBm E MajorE E
Making music, making love as the years went by
B minorBm A augmentedA
You had rhythm in your soul
I had violins
G+G B minorBm A augmentedA
You were rich and I was poor, trying to fit in
G+G F# minorF#m
Back on Bleeker in the spring and haunting Jackson Square
G+G F# minorF#m D MajorD D MajorD D
In the Fat Black Pussy Cat, catch me if you dare!
🎸 Refrain:
A minorAm G+G D MajorD D MajorD
We were so aliiiiiiive
🎸 Verse:
B minorBm A augmentedA
Then the world was going mad, the sky was overcast
G+G F# minorF#m A augmentedA
Found my peace in whiskey and the poets of the past
B minorBm A augmentedA
You were moving past me through the dark night of your soul
G+G B minorBm E MajorE E
I was singing folk songs and dreamed of rock and roll
B minorBm A augmentedA
The devil's in the details, you said, dreaming of your death
G+G B minorBm A augmentedA
I was running faster
I was nearly out of breath
G+G F# minorF#m
Long before we lost our dreams and all our songs were sung
G+G F# minorF#m D MajorD D MajorD D
You left the world too early, your spirit died too young
🎸 Refrain:
A minorAm G+G D MajorD D B minorBm Bm
We were so aliiiiiiive
🎸 Verse:
B minorBm A augmentedA
I was headed for the moon, aching to be free
G+G F# minorF#m B minorBm
Searching for the answers in the booze and the marquee
B minorBm A augmentedA
What is left of Greenwich Village lives among your songs
G+G A augmentedA E MajorE E MajorE
The ones we thought were always right and never would be wrong
B minorBm A augmentedA
Now sometimes the only thing that it gives me hope is you
G+G B minorBm
You who saw right through the veil that fell out of the blue
G+G F# minorF#m
I will always miss you
I will always hear your songs
G+G F# minorF#m D MajorD D D MajorD
Now the past is fading, one more dream and it is gone
🎸 Refrain:
A minorAm G+G D MajorD D B minorBm Bm
We were so aliiiiiiive
🎸 Verse:
B minorBm A augmentedA
We were young together once upon a long lost time
G+G F# minorF#m A augmentedA
Apple trees were blossoming and spring was on my mind
B minorBm A augmentedA
Guitars on MacDougal Street, sandals in the snow
G+G B minorBm E MajorE E MajorE E E MajorE
I am still in love with you
I was the last to know