Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) Intro: G C G G C G Verse 1: G C G February sixty three the cold would chill your bones G D There's a couple walking down the road West 4th Street and Jones G Shoulders hunched against the cold G C Em They walked through melting snow G
She smiles for the camera G D G And he affected not to know Verse 2: G C G His hands deep in his pockets, his head was slightly bowed G D All the studied nonchalance, the weather would allow G Her arms wrapped around him like a shawl G C Em To keep him from the cold G Love so warm can melt away G D G What once she had to hold Verse 3: G C G Spring came late in sixty three and faded like a kiss G D Winter came in early, landed like a fist G When Kennedy got shot G C Em In that Lincoln Limousine G Drenched us all in bl;ood and splintered bone G D G Right on our TV screen Verse 4: G C G When I kissed my girl on Gower Street how was I to know G D That we'd begun to drift apart as I stumbled through Soho G In the unforgiving neon light G C Em The words she could not speak G Were written in her mascara G D G That dried upon my cheek Verse 5: G C G But the world will keep on turning, young lovers drift apart G D Bob and Suzy's rhyming steps leave footprints on the heart G In the jingle jangle morning G C Em Dylan and Rottollo G In a freeze frame photograph G D G Eternally, tomorrow. End: