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Affair On 8th Avenue by Gordon Lightfoot

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Verse 1:

Em7                  D             Am          Bm 
The perfume that she wore was from some little store on the 
Cmaj7        D 
down side of town 
    Em7         D       Am          Bm 
And it lingered on long after she'd gone 
Cmaj7             D 
    I remember it well 
        G             D            C         D 
And she showed me her treasures of paper and tin 
       G        Em        Am        F   D 
And we played a game only she could win 

Verse 2:

    Em7          D         Am     Bm 
Her long flowing hair came softly undone 
       Cmaj7   D 
And it lay all around 
    Em7            D         Am           Bm 
And she brushed it down as I stood by her side 
       Cmaj7         D 
In the warmth of her love 
        G         D           C          D 
And our fingers entwined like ribbons of light 
       G                Em          Am           F    D 
And we came through the doorway somewhere in the night 
        G         D           C        D 
And she told me a riddle I'll never forget 
     G             Em          Am          F    D 
Then left with the answer I've never found yet

Verse 3:

    Em7        D          Am          Bm 
How long, said she, can a moment like this 
  Cmaj7       D 
Belong to someone? 
       Em7            D              Am         Bm 
What's wrong, what is right, when to live or to die 
Cmaj7             D 
We must almost be born? 
   G                 D       C         D 
So if you should ask me what secrets I hide 
         G         Em           Am      F     D 
That I'm only your lover, don't make me decide 

Verse 4:

Em7                  D             Am          Bm 
The perfume that she wore was from some little store on the 
Cmaj7        D 
down side of town 
    Em7         D       Am          Bm 
And it lingered on long after she'd gone 
Cmaj7             D 
    I remember it well 
        G             D            C         D 
And she showed me her treasures of paper and tin 
G             Em          Am        F    D 
And we played a game only she could win 
        G         D           C          D 
And our fingers entwined like ribbons of light 
       G                Em          Am           F    D 
And we came through the doorway somewhere in the night