Love Chronicles
by Al Stewart
Part I
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E D A E
I can remember the first girl that I did love
D A
It was Stephanie
E D A E
In kindergarten arithmetic classes she used to
D A
Sit next to me
E D A
I'd pass her sticky sweets under the table
E D A
Where the teacher couldn't see
E D
Although she wouldn't remember me now
A E D A
Sometimes I wonder where she can be.
E D A E D A E D A
E D A
I can remember the first girl I kissed it was
E D
Christine when I was ten.
E D A
I'd been told we were moving away
E D A
I thought I'd never see her again
E D A
Oh don't forget me
E D A
I'll be back when they let me
E D A
Before you learn how to lie when you're leaving
E D A
Love is so much easier then
E D A E D A
B7 E A E
And at school would you believe three hundred boys
B7 E
And no girls at all
B7 E A
But you're a fool if you should leave
A E B7 E
Just think of the joys of rugby football
A E B A E
And prep in the morning and Brylcream and acne
A E D B
And cross-country running to kill evil thoughts
E A
I'm surprised that I survived
E B7 D A
I ran ten thousand miles with my back to the wall.
E D A E D A
E D A E
I can remember the first girl that I made love to
D A
It was in a park
E D A
In the lower pleasure gardens in Bournemouth
E D A
In summer just after dark
E D A E D A
My mind was reeling. Oh what a feeling.
E D A
I missed the bus and walked twelve miles home
E D A E D A E D
And it really didn't seem far.
A E B A E
And all through my seventeenth summer
E B A B7 E
Running together from crowds and ties
E B A B7 E
Taking our clothes off and feeling each other
E B A B7 E
With fingers and senses and mouths and eyes,
A E A E
Incurring the glances of old disapproval
A E D B7
From elderly local inhabitant's eyes
E B A B E
Oh time time we hardly even knew you
E B7 A B7 E
You didn't touch us with your lies.
D A E D A
E D A
In the halcyon days of my late adolescence
E D A
My goal seemed clearly in sight
E D A
Playing electric guitar with a beat group
E A
We set the ballrooms alight
E D A
Camping it up for the dyed blonde receptionists
E D A
Who told us we were al-ri-yi-yight
E D A
On an ego trip for a teenage superstar
E D A E D A E D A E D A
On thirty shillings a night.
E D A
And so it fell that I came up to London
E D A
To look for fortune and fame
E D A
Starry eyed in my seaside successes
E D A
And much too sure of the game.
E D A
First girl I met there
E D A
I thought I'd get there
E D A
But the first girl was nearly the last girl
E D A
She left my eyes in the drain.
Part II (slower)
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B7 E B7 E
She sat on my floor in the dead of the night
A E B7
Rolling a joint and looking round for a light
A E A E
Her clothes were so black and her face was so white
B7
How could I know what was right?
A B7 E
And I sat all huddled upon my bed
A B7
Watching her in my innocence
A B7 E
And it was no sense at all, but too much sense
B A E B7 A E
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
B7 E B7 E
Oh Artaud's anthology lay spread on the floor
A E B7
And the thoughts that she gave me, I'd not met before
A E A E
And stranded half hypnotised, I watched her in awe
B7
Of everything that she stood for.
A B7 A E
And I wanted more than anything to be like her with every sense
A B7 E
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
B A E
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
B7 E B7 E
She came over to me and kissed me in play
A E B7
Taking my hands between her legs as she lay
A E A E
And she looked in my eyes but I turned them away
B7
Finding no words fit to say.
A B7 A
And I hated myself, but could not move
B7
Shattered in my confidence,
A B7 E
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
B A E
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
B7 E B7 E
Now the stare of the lightbulb tore holes in my brain
A E B7
As she got up in silence that hung like a stain
A E A E
And I wanted to speak, or call out her name,
B7
But how could I begin to explain?
A B7 A
And my prosecuting room still holds a strand of her hair
B7
In evidence,
A B7 E
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
B A E
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
B7 E B7 E
Oh I still think about her when the night fills with rain
A E B7
And speaks with its voices uneasy and vain
A E A E
And I think were I maybe to find her again,
B7
Oh I'd probably see her more plain.
A B7 A
And I should have known she was just like me,
B7
It was after all only commonsense,
A B7 E
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
B A E
That took me to the bridge of impotence...
Segue to part 3.
The chords for each verse are the same.
Part III (faster, tempo 1)
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E D A (repeat)
E D A
At first I didn't go out much at all
E D A
I just stayed home in my chains.
E D A
Picking over the threads of my confidence
E D A
And searching for the remains.
E D A
And when I couldn't stand any more of it
E D A
Going down to a club.
E D A
Mixing in with the sounds and the crowds
E D A E D A E D A
I let the music cover me up.
E D A
And so it came that I stood disillusioned
A D A
By everything I'd been told.
E D A
I just didn't believe love existed
E D A
They were all just digging for gold.
E D A
Widows and bankers and typists and bus'nessmen
E D A
Loved each other they said.
E D A
But all it was though was just a manoeuvre
E D A E D A E D A
The quickest way into bed.
G#7 E B7 E B C#m B
And only, lonely, the harlequins and painted phonies
C#m G#7 C#m G#7
Pick their ways, through the haze
E B7 E
Of highs and lows and blues
A G# A G#
And all that I could do was to pick my way to you
A G#
Though I didn't tell you
A G#
You were just a thing to prove
Bm Bb+ Bm7 Bm6 Em G Bm
But I was hungry when found you, but I'm al-right now.
G#7 E B7 E B C#m B
They sigh, they lie, the refugees and superhe-roes
C#m G#7 C#m G#7 E B7 E
On ice, so nice to see you, what's your name?
A G# A G#
And all that I could do was to say the same to you
A G# A G#
Take you for the moment, though the moment wasn't true
Bm Bb+ Bm Bm6 Em G Bm
But I was hungry when I found you and I'm al-right now.
F#m B7 E
Though the street lamp cut through the curfew
F#m B7 E
It shed no light on our mind
F#m B7 E
It would have been so easy to love you
A7 G#7
At any other time.
G#7 E B7 E B C#m B
Only lonely, you came to me the night hung coldly
C#m G#7 C#m G#7 E B7 E
In your eyes, some other time I might have stayed with you
A G# A G#
But all that I could do was to turn around to you
A G# A G#
Thanks for what you gave me now it's time to say "Adieu"
Bm Bb+ Bm7 Bm6 Em G Bm
Oh I was hungry when I found you but I'm al-right now.
F#m A C#m Bb+
Ba ba ba alright now
E D A (repeat)
E D A
And so I followed the other's example
E D A
And jumped into the melee
E D A
In hunting grounds of Earls Court and Swiss Cottage
E D A
I did my best to get laid
E D A E D A
Beer cans and parties, deb girls and arties
E D A
Bouncing around in the social confusion
E D A
Missing and making the grade.
E D A E D A E A E E
(Instrumental Solo - ad lib)
Part IV (Slower)
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N.D D E
The very first time I must confess
D E
I thought you'd be like all of the rest
D A
And we'd be strangers once again
G B7
By the time we were dressed.
D E
But when you'd smoked your cigarette
D E
And talked of some people that we'd met
D A G B7
I found myself asking was it set, did you have to go yet.
G D7
And so you laughed and then kissed me
C D A
And stayed for the whole weekend
G D
Although the bed was so narrow
C D7 A E D E
We had to sleep end to end.
D E
And so the weeks passed through my brain
D E
In their dadaistic chain
D A G B7
I found myself seeing you again, and again and again
D E
And all you gave you gave it free
D E
Asking for nothing back from me
D A G B7
You gave yourself unselfishly as a part of me.
G D7
And where I thought that just plucking
C D A
The fruits of the bed was enough
G D
It grew to be less like fucking
C D7 A E A E7
And more like making love.
A E D A Esus4 E
Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me
A E D A Esus4 E
And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me
A E D A Esus4 E
And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me
A E D A Esus4
And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.
G F# F D
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