Beleeka Doodle Day chords by Al Stewart

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Intro:

F Dm A Dm Dm F A
Dm A

Verse 1:
   F
I could have gone to
 A
Cambridge with
Dm
 Lionel
A   Bb
     I think
                    Dm
I tried to raise a pound
F   Dm                 A     Dm
      Just to see the university
Bb                              Dm A
  And find the scenes she hung
around
F         A      Dm
 Is your mind a menagerie

Perhaps
Bb
  I mean it's hard to say
Dm  F               A         Dm
     A pterodactyl built its nest on me
Bb           G                   Dm
  I'm feeling strange but quite okay
Bb         G
  On this beleeka doodle day
Dm

Verse 2:
Dm A Dm A Dm A Dm F                      Dm
                       Archimedes and his orchestra
Bb            Dm
  Who loudly disapprove of life
F
 Got mad when
          A
I called them unmusical
Bb
  And tried to land me with a wife
F
 Out in  San
 A     Dm
Francisco's

Wonderland
Bb                           Dm
  The purple poet kneels to pray
A   F
     But
             A      Dm        C
I just hang around your city and
Bb         Bb   G
  I don't have anything to say
Dm   Bb         Bb      Dm
       On this beleeka doodle day

Instrumental:
A Dm Dm A D F

Verse 3:
I had a week once in
Dm  C   Bb
   Italy  with

Mike and
               Dm A
Robin and some songs
F               A
  I had a girl once in
Dm        C
  Sweden but
Bb                            Dm
  I haven't seen her for too long
A  F
    I drifted down to the
 Dm
Cousin's  Inn
Bb                 Dm
   The usual people  were all there
 F            A      Dm       F
I saw a girl in the soft red light
Bb   Bm                    Dm
  I smiled but she looked away
C   Bb       Bm    Dm
      On my beleeka doodle day

Instrumental:
Dm Am Dm A D F

Verse 4:
I wrote a song just before the dawn
Bb
  And then
         Dm
I lost it  now it's gone
F       Dm
 I spent  all day playing
 Dm
Monopoly
Bb                   Dm
  It seemed to feel like getting on
F
 Sometimes
          A      Dm
I wonder how it feels to be
Bb
  Paul
                   Dm
McCartney or the  Queen
F                     A     Dm
 I wonder how they'd be if they were me
Bb            G                Dm
  I think it's gonna start to rain
Bb         G
  On this beleeka doodle day
Dm

Verse 5:
Dm Am Dm Am Dm A D F
                      Or

Jack the
        A
Ripper and
 Dm     C
Hippocrates
Bb                            Dm
  They're out to get me in the  end
F                              D        C
 I think they'll find me by the ruins' trees
Bb                       Dm
  Without a candle or a friend
D  F                            Dm          C
    Then they'll bring me to the  wizard's cave
Bb                         Dm
  And softly mold me into clay
F                A   Dm  C
 And lock me in with no telephone
Bb                              Dm
  And laugh and throw the keys away
Bb     Bm     Dm
On my beleeka doodle day

Verse 6:
Am Dm Am Dm A Dm F
And so to every land
A                    C Bb                              Dm
 I would like to give    my thanks for lending me your room
F               A
  I stayed one night but
   Dm    C
I had to go
Bb
   I think
            Dm
I'll maybe come back soon
A  F
    Of all the girls that
A
 I have ever known
C   Bb                             Dm
      There wasn't one who didn't play
 F                       A
They came and went just like the newspapers
Bb             G
  And left me here to find my way
Dm   Bb                         G Dm
       Through my beleeka doodle   Day