Chords with lyrics
[Song: Roy Harper "When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease"]
[Transcription by Gordon Walker ]
When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease (Harper)
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When the day is done, ...
C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7
In the umpire's ...
C majorC DmDm
And all remains, in the ...,
C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7
For the rest of ...
C majorC G+G
There'll be one mad dog and his master, ....
C majorC E minorEm C majorC DmDm
On a dusty pitch, with two pounds six, of ...
C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7 C majorC G+G
When an old cricketer leaves the crease, you ....
C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7 C majorC DmDm
If maybe you're catching a fleeting ...
C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7 C majorC G+G
And it could be Geoff, and ...
C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7
With a new ball ....
C majorC DmDm
And it could be me, and ...
C majorC Fmaj7Fmaj7
And it could be the sting ....
C majorC G+G Fmaj7Fmaj7
Solo on verse
Verse 2 (chords as above - sorry don't have the words to hand)
Chorus (as above)
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Chord note for for beginners:
All chords played as normally given in any book in standard tuning in 1st
position (ie at the bottom of the neck - which is physically the top if you're
holding the neck upwards!). Note that Roy plays G+G with 4 fingers - fingering
D MajorD on the BB string, which makes the chord sound nicer (you dont get the jump
from BB up to G+G for the top two strings - if any notes are to be missed
out of a chord, better to miss the 3rd(BB) than the 5th(D MajorD) in general)
i.e.:
............playing D MajorD instead of open BB
:
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and for complete beginners the rest of the chords:
Fmaj7Fmaj7 C majorC DmDm E minorEm
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