Brighton Beach chords by Rod Stewart

Intro
Cadd9 G Cadd9 G

Verse 1
  Cadd9             G
I remember when you were only seventeen
       Cadd9               G
You were the finest girl that my eyes had ever seen
           Em          C
I guess you found it hard to simply just ignore
           Em             C  D
This scruffy beat up working class teenage troubadour
   G         D             Em     C
So we fell in love and I toured your heart with my out of tune guitar
     G         D        Em        C
You were wonderful you were mystical and the envy of all of my friends
      G     D       C         G
Seems like only yesterday under the stars on Brighton Beach

Verse 2
     Cadd9             G
Oh what a time it was what a time to be alive
     Cadd9                   G
Remember Janice and Jimmy Kennedy and King how they cried
         Em        C
I sang to you the songs of Ramblin' Jack
        Em         C  D
You were Greta Garbo and I was Karolac
    G           D            Em     C
And we played so hard and we loved so hard seemed we never ever slept
     G          D          Em
They were crazy days they were wonderful days and I loved you with all of my
C
heart
      G     D       C         G
Seems like only yesterday under the stars on Brighton Beach

Bridge
Em              C
Your daddy had plans that did not include me
    Em            C
And he won't stay away from your door
   Em              C
And I dreamed how I dreamed I could steal you away
    Am       D
To some far off distant shore

Verse 3
   Cadd9                 G
Then early one morning I awoke to find you gone
       Cadd9                   G
You wrote 'I love you baby but it's time for me to move on'
         Em             C
And so my teenage heart laid scattered on the floor
         Em             C  D
I swear to God I could not have loved you anymore
     G            D
And as I sit here tonight playing with my kids wondering
Em          C
Where you are in this world
    G           D        Em            C
Did you find your man are you happy now do you ever stop and think about me
   G       D       C         G
How I long for yesterday under the stars on Brighton Beach


Tabbed by Tony Coxill.
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