Love Chronicles
by Al Stewart
Part I
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B A E B
I can remember the first girl that I did love
A E
It was Stephanie
B A E B
In kindergarten arithmetic classes she used to
A E
Sit next to me
B A E
I'd pass her sticky sweets under the table
B A E
Where the teacher couldn't see
B A
Although she wouldn't remember me now
E B A E
Sometimes I wonder where she can be.
B A E B A E B A E
B A E
I can remember the first girl I kissed it was
B A
Christine when I was ten.
B A E
I'd been told we were moving away
B A E
I thought I'd never see her again
B A E
Oh don't forget me
B A E
I'll be back when they let me
B A E
Before you learn how to lie when you're leaving
B A E
Love is so much easier then
B A E B A E
F#7 B E B
And at school would you believe three hundred boys
F#7 B
And no girls at all
F#7 B E
But you're a fool if you should leave
E B F#7 B
Just think of the joys of rugby football
E B F# E B
And prep in the morning and Brylcream and acne
E B A F#
And cross-country running to kill evil thoughts
B E
I'm surprised that I survived
B F#7 A E
I ran ten thousand miles with my back to the wall.
B A E B A E
B A E B
I can remember the first girl that I made love to
A E
It was in a park
B A E
In the lower pleasure gardens in Bournemouth
B A E
In summer just after dark
B A E B A E
My mind was reeling. Oh what a feeling.
B A E
I missed the bus and walked twelve miles home
B A E B A E B A
And it really didn't seem far.
E B F# E B
And all through my seventeenth summer
B F# E F#7 B
Running together from crowds and ties
B F# E F#7 B
Taking our clothes off and feeling each other
B F# E F#7 B
With fingers and senses and mouths and eyes,
E B E B
Incurring the glances of old disapproval
E B A F#7
From elderly local inhabitant's eyes
B F# E F# B
Oh time time we hardly even knew you
B F#7 E F#7 B
You didn't touch us with your lies.
A E B A E
B A E
In the halcyon days of my late adolescence
B A E
My goal seemed clearly in sight
B A E
Playing electric guitar with a beat group
B E
We set the ballrooms alight
B A E
Camping it up for the dyed blonde receptionists
B A E
Who told us we were al-ri-yi-yight
B A E
On an ego trip for a teenage superstar
B A E B A E B A E B A E
On thirty shillings a night.
B A E
And so it fell that I came up to London
B A E
To look for fortune and fame
B A E
Starry eyed in my seaside successes
B A E
And much too sure of the game.
B A E
First girl I met there
B A E
I thought I'd get there
B A E
But the first girl was nearly the last girl
B A E
She left my eyes in the drain.
Part II (slower)
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F#7 B F#7 B
She sat on my floor in the dead of the night
E B F#7
Rolling a joint and looking round for a light
E B E B
Her clothes were so black and her face was so white
F#7
How could I know what was right?
E F#7 B
And I sat all huddled upon my bed
E F#7
Watching her in my innocence
E F#7 B
And it was no sense at all, but too much sense
F# E B F#7 E B
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
F#7 B F#7 B
Oh Artaud's anthology lay spread on the floor
E B F#7
And the thoughts that she gave me, I'd not met before
E B E B
And stranded half hypnotised, I watched her in awe
F#7
Of everything that she stood for.
E F#7 E B
And I wanted more than anything to be like her with every sense
E F#7 B
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
F# E B
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
F#7 B F#7 B
She came over to me and kissed me in play
E B F#7
Taking my hands between her legs as she lay
E B E B
And she looked in my eyes but I turned them away
F#7
Finding no words fit to say.
E F#7 E
And I hated myself, but could not move
F#7
Shattered in my confidence,
E F#7 B
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
F# E B
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
F#7 B F#7 B
Now the stare of the lightbulb tore holes in my brain
E B F#7
As she got up in silence that hung like a stain
E B E B
And I wanted to speak, or call out her name,
F#7
But how could I begin to explain?
E F#7 E
And my prosecuting room still holds a strand of her hair
F#7
In evidence,
E F#7 B
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
F# E B
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
F#7 B F#7 B
Oh I still think about her when the night fills with rain
E B F#7
And speaks with its voices uneasy and vain
E B E B
And I think were I maybe to find her again,
F#7
Oh I'd probably see her more plain.
E F#7 E
And I should have known she was just like me,
F#7
It was after all only commonsense,
E F#7 B
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
F# E B
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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B A E (repeat)
B A E
At first I didn't go out much at all
B A E
I just stayed home in my chains.
B A E
Picking over the threads of my confidence
B A E
And searching for the remains.
B A E
And when I couldn't stand any more of it
B A E
Going down to a club.
B A E
Mixing in with the sounds and the crowds
B A E B A E B A E
I let the music cover me up.
B A E
And so it came that I stood disillusioned
E A E
By everything I'd been told.
B A E
I just didn't believe love existed
B A E
They were all just digging for gold.
B A E
Widows and bankers and typists and bus'nessmen
B A E
Loved each other they said.
B A E
But all it was though was just a manoeuvre
B A E B A E B A E
The quickest way into bed.
D#7 B F#7 B F# G#m F#
And only, lonely, the harlequins and painted phonies
G#m D#7 G#m D#7
Pick their ways, through the haze
B F#7 B
Of highs and lows and blues
E D# E D#
And all that I could do was to pick my way to you
E D#
Though I didn't tell you
E D#
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.
D#7 B F#7 B F# G#m F#
They sigh, they lie, the refugees and superhe-roes
G#m D#7 G#m D#7 B F#7 B
On ice, so nice to see you, what's your name?
E D# E D#
And all that I could do was to say the same to you
E D# E D#
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.
C#m F#7 B
Though the street lamp cut through the curfew
C#m F#7 B
It shed no light on our mind
C#m F#7 B
It would have been so easy to love you
E7 D#7
At any other time.
D#7 B F#7 B F# G#m F#
Only lonely, you came to me the night hung coldly
G#m D#7 G#m D#7 B F#7 B
In your eyes, some other time I might have stayed with you
E D# E D#
But all that I could do was to turn around to you
E D# E D#
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.
C#m E G#m Bb+
Ba ba ba alright now
B A E (repeat)
B A E
And so I followed the other's example
B A E
And jumped into the melee
B A E
In hunting grounds of Earls Court and Swiss Cottage
B A E
I did my best to get laid
B A E B A E
Beer cans and parties, deb girls and arties
B A E
Bouncing around in the social confusion
B A E
Missing and making the grade.
B A E B A E B E B B
(Instrumental Solo - ad lib)
Part IV (Slower)
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N.A A B
The very first time I must confess
A B
I thought you'd be like all of the rest
A E
And we'd be strangers once again
D F#7
By the time we were dressed.
A B
But when you'd smoked your cigarette
A B
And talked of some people that we'd met
A E D F#7
I found myself asking was it set, did you have to go yet.
D A7
And so you laughed and then kissed me
G A E
And stayed for the whole weekend
D A
Although the bed was so narrow
G A7 E B A B
We had to sleep end to end.
A B
And so the weeks passed through my brain
A B
In their dadaistic chain
A E D F#7
I found myself seeing you again, and again and again
A B
And all you gave you gave it free
A B
Asking for nothing back from me
A E D F#7
You gave yourself unselfishly as a part of me.
D A7
And where I thought that just plucking
G A E
The fruits of the bed was enough
D A
It grew to be less like fucking
G A7 E B E B7
And more like making love.
E B A E Bsus4 B
Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me
E B A E Bsus4 B
And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me
E B A E Bsus4 B
And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me
E B A E Bsus4
And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.
D C# C D
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