Love Chronicles
by Al Stewart
Part I
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A G D A
I can remember the first girl that I did love
G D
It was Stephanie
A G D A
In kindergarten arithmetic classes she used to
G D
Sit next to me
A G D
I'd pass her sticky sweets under the table
A G D
Where the teacher couldn't see
A G
Although she wouldn't remember me now
D A G D
Sometimes I wonder where she can be.
A G D A G D A G D
A G D
I can remember the first girl I kissed it was
A G
Christine when I was ten.
A G D
I'd been told we were moving away
A G D
I thought I'd never see her again
A G D
Oh don't forget me
A G D
I'll be back when they let me
A G D
Before you learn how to lie when you're leaving
A G D
Love is so much easier then
A G D A G D
E7 A D A
And at school would you believe three hundred boys
E7 A
And no girls at all
E7 A D
But you're a fool if you should leave
D A E7 A
Just think of the joys of rugby football
D A E D A
And prep in the morning and Brylcream and acne
D A G E
And cross-country running to kill evil thoughts
A D
I'm surprised that I survived
A E7 G D
I ran ten thousand miles with my back to the wall.
A G D A G D
A G D A
I can remember the first girl that I made love to
G D
It was in a park
A G D
In the lower pleasure gardens in Bournemouth
A G D
In summer just after dark
A G D A G D
My mind was reeling. Oh what a feeling.
A G D
I missed the bus and walked twelve miles home
A G D A G D A G
And it really didn't seem far.
D A E D A
And all through my seventeenth summer
A E D E7 A
Running together from crowds and ties
A E D E7 A
Taking our clothes off and feeling each other
A E D E7 A
With fingers and senses and mouths and eyes,
D A D A
Incurring the glances of old disapproval
D A G E7
From elderly local inhabitant's eyes
A E D E A
Oh time time we hardly even knew you
A E7 D E7 A
You didn't touch us with your lies.
G D A G D
A G D
In the halcyon days of my late adolescence
A G D
My goal seemed clearly in sight
A G D
Playing electric guitar with a beat group
A D
We set the ballrooms alight
A G D
Camping it up for the dyed blonde receptionists
A G D
Who told us we were al-ri-yi-yight
A G D
On an ego trip for a teenage superstar
A G D A G D A G D A G D
On thirty shillings a night.
A G D
And so it fell that I came up to London
A G D
To look for fortune and fame
A G D
Starry eyed in my seaside successes
A G D
And much too sure of the game.
A G D
First girl I met there
A G D
I thought I'd get there
A G D
But the first girl was nearly the last girl
A G D
She left my eyes in the drain.
Part II (slower)
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E7 A E7 A
She sat on my floor in the dead of the night
D A E7
Rolling a joint and looking round for a light
D A D A
Her clothes were so black and her face was so white
E7
How could I know what was right?
D E7 A
And I sat all huddled upon my bed
D E7
Watching her in my innocence
D E7 A
And it was no sense at all, but too much sense
E D A E7 D A
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
E7 A E7 A
Oh Artaud's anthology lay spread on the floor
D A E7
And the thoughts that she gave me, I'd not met before
D A D A
And stranded half hypnotised, I watched her in awe
E7
Of everything that she stood for.
D E7 D A
And I wanted more than anything to be like her with every sense
D E7 A
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
E D A
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
E7 A E7 A
She came over to me and kissed me in play
D A E7
Taking my hands between her legs as she lay
D A D A
And she looked in my eyes but I turned them away
E7
Finding no words fit to say.
D E7 D
And I hated myself, but could not move
E7
Shattered in my confidence,
D E7 A
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
E D A
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
E7 A E7 A
Now the stare of the lightbulb tore holes in my brain
D A E7
As she got up in silence that hung like a stain
D A D A
And I wanted to speak, or call out her name,
E7
But how could I begin to explain?
D E7 D
And my prosecuting room still holds a strand of her hair
E7
In evidence,
D E7 A
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
E D A
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
E7 A E7 A
Oh I still think about her when the night fills with rain
D A E7
And speaks with its voices uneasy and vain
D A D A
And I think were I maybe to find her again,
E7
Oh I'd probably see her more plain.
D E7 D
And I should have known she was just like me,
E7
It was after all only commonsense,
D E7 A
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
E D A
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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A G D (repeat)
A G D
At first I didn't go out much at all
A G D
I just stayed home in my chains.
A G D
Picking over the threads of my confidence
A G D
And searching for the remains.
A G D
And when I couldn't stand any more of it
A G D
Going down to a club.
A G D
Mixing in with the sounds and the crowds
A G D A G D A G D
I let the music cover me up.
A G D
And so it came that I stood disillusioned
D G D
By everything I'd been told.
A G D
I just didn't believe love existed
A G D
They were all just digging for gold.
A G D
Widows and bankers and typists and bus'nessmen
A G D
Loved each other they said.
A G D
But all it was though was just a manoeuvre
A G D A G D A G D
The quickest way into bed.
C#7 A E7 A E F#m E
And only, lonely, the harlequins and painted phonies
F#m C#7 F#m C#7
Pick their ways, through the haze
A E7 A
Of highs and lows and blues
D C# D C#
And all that I could do was to pick my way to you
D C#
Though I didn't tell you
D C#
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.
C#7 A E7 A E F#m E
They sigh, they lie, the refugees and superhe-roes
F#m C#7 F#m C#7 A E7 A
On ice, so nice to see you, what's your name?
D C# D C#
And all that I could do was to say the same to you
D C# D C#
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.
Bm E7 A
Though the street lamp cut through the curfew
Bm E7 A
It shed no light on our mind
Bm E7 A
It would have been so easy to love you
D7 C#7
At any other time.
C#7 A E7 A E F#m E
Only lonely, you came to me the night hung coldly
F#m C#7 F#m C#7 A E7 A
In your eyes, some other time I might have stayed with you
D C# D C#
But all that I could do was to turn around to you
D C# D C#
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.
Bm D F#m Bb+
Ba ba ba alright now
A G D (repeat)
A G D
And so I followed the other's example
A G D
And jumped into the melee
A G D
In hunting grounds of Earls Court and Swiss Cottage
A G D
I did my best to get laid
A G D A G D
Beer cans and parties, deb girls and arties
A G D
Bouncing around in the social confusion
A G D
Missing and making the grade.
A G D A G D A D A A
(Instrumental Solo - ad lib)
Part IV (Slower)
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N.G G A
The very first time I must confess
G A
I thought you'd be like all of the rest
G D
And we'd be strangers once again
C E7
By the time we were dressed.
G A
But when you'd smoked your cigarette
G A
And talked of some people that we'd met
G D C E7
I found myself asking was it set, did you have to go yet.
C G7
And so you laughed and then kissed me
F G D
And stayed for the whole weekend
C G
Although the bed was so narrow
F G7 D A G A
We had to sleep end to end.
G A
And so the weeks passed through my brain
G A
In their dadaistic chain
G D C E7
I found myself seeing you again, and again and again
G A
And all you gave you gave it free
G A
Asking for nothing back from me
G D C E7
You gave yourself unselfishly as a part of me.
C G7
And where I thought that just plucking
F G D
The fruits of the bed was enough
C G
It grew to be less like fucking
F G7 D A D A7
And more like making love.
D A G D Asus4 A
Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me
D A G D Asus4 A
And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me
D A G D Asus4 A
And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me
D A G D Asus4
And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.
C B A# D
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