Love Chronicles
by Al Stewart
Part I
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C A# F C
I can remember the first girl that I did love
A# F
It was Stephanie
C A# F C
In kindergarten arithmetic classes she used to
A# F
Sit next to me
C A# F
I'd pass her sticky sweets under the table
C A# F
Where the teacher couldn't see
C A#
Although she wouldn't remember me now
F C A# F
Sometimes I wonder where she can be.
C A# F C A# F C A# F
C A# F
I can remember the first girl I kissed it was
C A#
Christine when I was ten.
C A# F
I'd been told we were moving away
C A# F
I thought I'd never see her again
C A# F
Oh don't forget me
C A# F
I'll be back when they let me
C A# F
Before you learn how to lie when you're leaving
C A# F
Love is so much easier then
C A# F C A# F
G7 C F C
And at school would you believe three hundred boys
G7 C
And no girls at all
G7 C F
But you're a fool if you should leave
F C G7 C
Just think of the joys of rugby football
F C G F C
And prep in the morning and Brylcream and acne
F C A# G
And cross-country running to kill evil thoughts
C F
I'm surprised that I survived
C G7 A# F
I ran ten thousand miles with my back to the wall.
C A# F C A# F
C A# F C
I can remember the first girl that I made love to
A# F
It was in a park
C A# F
In the lower pleasure gardens in Bournemouth
C A# F
In summer just after dark
C A# F C A# F
My mind was reeling. Oh what a feeling.
C A# F
I missed the bus and walked twelve miles home
C A# F C A# F C A#
And it really didn't seem far.
F C G F C
And all through my seventeenth summer
C G F G7 C
Running together from crowds and ties
C G F G7 C
Taking our clothes off and feeling each other
C G F G7 C
With fingers and senses and mouths and eyes,
F C F C
Incurring the glances of old disapproval
F C A# G7
From elderly local inhabitant's eyes
C G F G C
Oh time time we hardly even knew you
C G7 F G7 C
You didn't touch us with your lies.
A# F C A# F
C A# F
In the halcyon days of my late adolescence
C A# F
My goal seemed clearly in sight
C A# F
Playing electric guitar with a beat group
C F
We set the ballrooms alight
C A# F
Camping it up for the dyed blonde receptionists
C A# F
Who told us we were al-ri-yi-yight
C A# F
On an ego trip for a teenage superstar
C A# F C A# F C A# F C A# F
On thirty shillings a night.
C A# F
And so it fell that I came up to London
C A# F
To look for fortune and fame
C A# F
Starry eyed in my seaside successes
C A# F
And much too sure of the game.
C A# F
First girl I met there
C A# F
I thought I'd get there
C A# F
But the first girl was nearly the last girl
C A# F
She left my eyes in the drain.
Part II (slower)
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G7 C G7 C
She sat on my floor in the dead of the night
F C G7
Rolling a joint and looking round for a light
F C F C
Her clothes were so black and her face was so white
G7
How could I know what was right?
F G7 C
And I sat all huddled upon my bed
F G7
Watching her in my innocence
F G7 C
And it was no sense at all, but too much sense
G F C G7 F C
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
G7 C G7 C
Oh Artaud's anthology lay spread on the floor
F C G7
And the thoughts that she gave me, I'd not met before
F C F C
And stranded half hypnotised, I watched her in awe
G7
Of everything that she stood for.
F G7 F C
And I wanted more than anything to be like her with every sense
F G7 C
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
G F C
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
G7 C G7 C
She came over to me and kissed me in play
F C G7
Taking my hands between her legs as she lay
F C F C
And she looked in my eyes but I turned them away
G7
Finding no words fit to say.
F G7 F
And I hated myself, but could not move
G7
Shattered in my confidence,
F G7 C
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
G F C
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
G7 C G7 C
Now the stare of the lightbulb tore holes in my brain
F C G7
As she got up in silence that hung like a stain
F C F C
And I wanted to speak, or call out her name,
G7
But how could I begin to explain?
F G7 F
And my prosecuting room still holds a strand of her hair
G7
In evidence,
F G7 C
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
G F C
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
G7 C G7 C
Oh I still think about her when the night fills with rain
F C G7
And speaks with its voices uneasy and vain
F C F C
And I think were I maybe to find her again,
G7
Oh I'd probably see her more plain.
F G7 F
And I should have known she was just like me,
G7
It was after all only commonsense,
F G7 C
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
G F C
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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C A# F (repeat)
C A# F
At first I didn't go out much at all
C A# F
I just stayed home in my chains.
C A# F
Picking over the threads of my confidence
C A# F
And searching for the remains.
C A# F
And when I couldn't stand any more of it
C A# F
Going down to a club.
C A# F
Mixing in with the sounds and the crowds
C A# F C A# F C A# F
I let the music cover me up.
C A# F
And so it came that I stood disillusioned
F A# F
By everything I'd been told.
C A# F
I just didn't believe love existed
C A# F
They were all just digging for gold.
C A# F
Widows and bankers and typists and bus'nessmen
C A# F
Loved each other they said.
C A# F
But all it was though was just a manoeuvre
C A# F C A# F C A# F
The quickest way into bed.
E7 C G7 C G Am G
And only, lonely, the harlequins and painted phonies
Am E7 Am E7
Pick their ways, through the haze
C G7 C
Of highs and lows and blues
F E F E
And all that I could do was to pick my way to you
F E
Though I didn't tell you
F E
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.
E7 C G7 C G Am G
They sigh, they lie, the refugees and superhe-roes
Am E7 Am E7 C G7 C
On ice, so nice to see you, what's your name?
F E F E
And all that I could do was to say the same to you
F E F E
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.
Dm G7 C
Though the street lamp cut through the curfew
Dm G7 C
It shed no light on our mind
Dm G7 C
It would have been so easy to love you
F7 E7
At any other time.
E7 C G7 C G Am G
Only lonely, you came to me the night hung coldly
Am E7 Am E7 C G7 C
In your eyes, some other time I might have stayed with you
F E F E
But all that I could do was to turn around to you
F E F E
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.
Dm F Am Bb+
Ba ba ba alright now
C A# F (repeat)
C A# F
And so I followed the other's example
C A# F
And jumped into the melee
C A# F
In hunting grounds of Earls Court and Swiss Cottage
C A# F
I did my best to get laid
C A# F C A# F
Beer cans and parties, deb girls and arties
C A# F
Bouncing around in the social confusion
C A# F
Missing and making the grade.
C A# F C A# F C F C C
(Instrumental Solo - ad lib)
Part IV (Slower)
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N.A# A# C
The very first time I must confess
A# C
I thought you'd be like all of the rest
A# F
And we'd be strangers once again
D# G7
By the time we were dressed.
A# C
But when you'd smoked your cigarette
A# C
And talked of some people that we'd met
A# F D# G7
I found myself asking was it set, did you have to go yet.
D# A#7
And so you laughed and then kissed me
Ab A# F
And stayed for the whole weekend
D# A#
Although the bed was so narrow
Ab A#7 F C A# C
We had to sleep end to end.
A# C
And so the weeks passed through my brain
A# C
In their dadaistic chain
A# F D# G7
I found myself seeing you again, and again and again
A# C
And all you gave you gave it free
A# C
Asking for nothing back from me
A# F D# G7
You gave yourself unselfishly as a part of me.
D# A#7
And where I thought that just plucking
Ab A# F
The fruits of the bed was enough
D# A#
It grew to be less like fucking
Ab A#7 F C F C7
And more like making love.
F C A# F Csus4 C
Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me
F C A# F Csus4 C
And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me
F C A# F Csus4 C
And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me
F C A# F Csus4
And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.
D# D Db D
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