Closing Time chords by Fairport Convention

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
G+G  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD

Verse:

     G+G
So, we're drinking and we're dancing


G+G
And the band is really happening


    E minorEm
And the Johnny Walker wisdom's running high

    B minorBm
And my very sweet companion


B minorBm
She's an angel of compassion


   E minorEm
She's rubbing half the world against her thigh


   C majorC
Every drinker every dancer


C majorC
Lifts a happy face to thank her


    G+G        BB        E minorEm
And the fiddler fiddles something so sublime


Verse:

    D MajorD
And the women tear their blouses off


D MajorD
And the men they dance on the polka-dots

     C majorC
And it's partner found and it's partner lost


C majorC
And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops


   G+G
It's closing time


    C majorC
And the women tear their blouses off


C majorC
And the men they dance on the polka-dots


     G+G           BB
And it's partner found and it's partner lost


     E minorEm          C majorC
And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops


   G+G
It's closing time


D MajorD
Closing time


Verse:

      G+G
Well, we're lonely, we're romantic


G+G
Society's psyched with acid


    E minorEm
And the Holy Spirit's crying, "Where's the beef?"


    B minorBm
And the moon is swimming naked


B minorBm
And the summer night is fragrant


    E minorEm
With a mighty expectation of relief


   C majorC
So we struggle and we stagger


C majorC
Down the snakes and up the ladder


    G+G        BB       E minorEm
To the tower where the blessed hours chime


Verse:

   D MajorD
And I swear it happened just like this


D MajorD
A augmentedA sigh, a cry and a hungry kiss


  C majorC
The gates of love they budged an inch


C majorC
I can't say much has happened since


  G+G
But closing time


 C majorC
I swear it happened just like this


C majorC
A augmentedA sigh, a cry and a hungry kiss


  G+G         BB
The gates of love they budged an inch


    E minorEm         C majorC
But you can't say much has happened since


   G+G
Since closing time


D MajorD
Closing time


Bridge:

 E minorEm
I loved you for your beauty


E minorEm
But that doesn't make a fool of me


B minorBm
You were in it for your beauty too


   E minorEm
And I loved you for your body


E minorEm
There's a voice that sounds like god to me


 A augmentedA
Declaring that your body's really you


Instrumental:
D MajorD C majorC G/BG/B D/AD/A

Verse:

   C majorC
But I loved you when our love was blessed


C majorC
And I love you now there's nothing left


  G+G      BB      E minorEm
But sorrow and a sense of overtime


   D MajorD
And I missed you since the place got wrecked


D MajorD
And I just don't care what happens next


C majorC
Looks like freedom but it feels like death


C majorC
It's something in between, I guess


   G+G
It's closing time


D MajorD
Closing time


Verse:

     G+G
Oh, we're drinking and we're dancing


G+G
Yet there's nothing really happening


   E minorEm
This place is dead as heaven on a Saturday night


    B minorBm
And my very close companion


B minorBm
Gets me humping, gets me laughing


    E minorEm
She's a hundred but she's wearing something tight


 E minorEm
(Tight, tight, tight, tight, tight, tight)


   C majorC
And I lift my glass to the awful truth


C majorC
But you can't reveal to the ears of youth


 G+G        BB       E minorEm
Except to say, it isn't worth a dime


    D MajorD
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice


D MajorD
It's once for the Devil and it's once for the Christ


    C majorC
But the boss don't like those dizzy heights


C majorC
We're busted in the blinding lights


   G+G
It's closing time


   D MajorD       G+G
It's closing time


Outro:

G+G
(Closing, drinking, Devil, dancing)


D MajorD       G+G
Closing time


D MajorD       G+G
Closing time


D MajorD       G+G
Closing time