Chords with lyrics
- Submitter:
Ayreon77 - 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 MajorD 
G+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 MajorD 
A augmentedA G+G
Prince Louis Battenberg is burning the Admiralty lights down low
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G
Silently sifting through papers sealed with a crown
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G D MajorD
Admiral Lord Fisher is writing to Churchill, calling for more Dreadnoughts
A augmentedA G+G
The houses in Hackney are all falling down
D MajorD
A augmentedA D MajorD
And my grandmother sits on the beach in the days before the war
Bb majorBb D MajorD 
FF G+G
Young girl writing her diary, while time seems to pause
Bb majorBb D MajorD FF
Watching the waves as they come one by one to die on the shore
Bb majorBb A augmentedA D MajorD
Kissing the feeeeeeeeeeet of England.
G+G D MajorD G+G D MajorD
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VERSE 2
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D MajorD A augmentedA
Oh the lights of Saint Petersburg come on as usual
G+G D MajorD A augmentedA G+G
Although the air seems charged with a strangeness of late,yet there`s nothing to touch
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G
And the Tsar in his great Winter Palace has called for the foreign news
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G
An archduke was shot down in Bosnia, but nothing much
D MajorD
A augmentedA D MajorD
And my grandmother sits before the mirror in the days before the war
Bb majorBb D MajorD FF G+G
Smiling a secret smile as she goes to the door
Bb majorBb D MajorD FF
And the young man rides off in his carriage, homeward once more
Bb majorBb A augmentedA D MajorD
And the sun sets gentlyyyyyyyyyyyy on England.
G+G D MajorD G+G D MajorD
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VERSE 3
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D MajorD A augmentedA G+G
Ah the day we decided to drive down to Worthing, it rained and rained
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G
Giving us only a minute to stand by the sea
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G
And crunching my way through the shingles, it seemed there was nothing changed
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G
Though the jetty was maybe more scarred that I`d known it to be
D MajorD
A augmentedA D MajorD
And Mandi and I stood and stared at the overcast sky
Bb majorBb D MajorD G+G
Where ten years ago we had stood, my Grandfather and I
Bb majorBb D MajorD
And the waves still rushed in as they had the year that he died
Bb majorBb D MajorD
And it seemed that my lifetime was shrunken and lost in the tide
Bb majorBb A augmentedA D MajorD
As it rose and fell on the sideeeeeeeeeee of England
G+G D MajorD G+G D MajorD
D MajorD A augmentedA FF
Prince Louis Batten berg is burning the Admiralty lights
A augmentedA Simple Tune To Play. Enjoy............
