When An Old Cricketer chords by Roy Harper

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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