Manuscript chords by Al Stewart

• Tuning: Standard tuning
• Difficulty: Beginner

Artist - Al Stewart
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                      Song - Manuscript
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                   Album - To Whom It May Concern
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                     Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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This Is the Small part he does on the G, and comes in Every so often.

 D        G
[-2--2-2--2--2-2-|---3--3-2-3-2-0----]
[-3--3-3--3--3-3-|---3--3-3-3-3-3--3-]
[-2--2-2--2--2-2-|---0--0-0-0-0-0--0-]
[-0--0-0--0--0-0-|-----------------0-]
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[----------------|-3-----------------]X2

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VERSE 1
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D             A           G
Prince Louis Battenberg is burning the Admiralty lights down low
D            A          G
Silently sifting through papers sealed with a crown
D           A           G        D
Admiral Lord Fisher is writing to Churchill, calling for more Dreadnoughts
       A            G
The houses in Hackney are all falling down

D
                A              D
And my grandmother sits on the beach in the days before the war
Bb           D   F            G
Young girl writing her diary,  while time seems to pause
Bb                            D   F
Watching the waves as they come one by one to die on the shore
      Bb   A   D
Kissing the feeeeeeeeeeet of England.


G D G D

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VERSE 2
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    D             A
Oh the lights of Saint Petersburg come on as usual
G           D               A              G
Although the air seems charged with a strangeness of late,yet there`s nothing to touch
    D            A             G
And the Tsar in his great Winter Palace has called for the foreign news
  D             A          G
An archduke was shot down in Bosnia, but nothing much

D
                  A               D
And my grandmother sits before the mirror in the days before the war
Bb        D   F           G
Smiling a secret smile   as she goes to the door
    Bb                         D   F
And the young man rides off in his carriage, homeward once more
         Bb     A   D
And the sun sets gentlyyyyyyyyyyyy on England.


G D G D

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VERSE 3
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    D         A             G
Ah the day we decided to drive down to Worthing, it rained and rained
D        A           G
Giving us only a minute to stand by the sea
  D              A               G
And crunching my way through the shingles, it seemed there was nothing changed
      D          A              G
Though the jetty was maybe more scarred that I`d known it to be

D
             A           D
And Mandi and I stood and stared at the overcast sky
   Bb          D             G
Where ten years ago we had stood, my Grandfather and I
    Bb                         D
And the waves still rushed in as they had the year that he died
    Bb                          D
And it seemed that my lifetime was shrunken and lost in the tide
              Bb   A   D
As it rose and fell on the sideeeeeeeeeee of England


G D G D

D              A              F
Prince Louis Batten berg is burning the Admiralty lights




A Simple Tune To Play. Enjoy............