Love Chronicles
by Al Stewart
Part I
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G F C G
I can remember the first girl that I did love
F C
It was Stephanie
G F C G
In kindergarten arithmetic classes she used to
F C
Sit next to me
G F C
I'd pass her sticky sweets under the table
G F C
Where the teacher couldn't see
G F
Although she wouldn't remember me now
C G F C
Sometimes I wonder where she can be.
G F C G F C G F C
G F C
I can remember the first girl I kissed it was
G F
Christine when I was ten.
G F C
I'd been told we were moving away
G F C
I thought I'd never see her again
G F C
Oh don't forget me
G F C
I'll be back when they let me
G F C
Before you learn how to lie when you're leaving
G F C
Love is so much easier then
G F C G F C
D7 G C G
And at school would you believe three hundred boys
D7 G
And no girls at all
D7 G C
But you're a fool if you should leave
C G D7 G
Just think of the joys of rugby football
C G D C G
And prep in the morning and Brylcream and acne
C G F D
And cross-country running to kill evil thoughts
G C
I'm surprised that I survived
G D7 F C
I ran ten thousand miles with my back to the wall.
G F C G F C
G F C G
I can remember the first girl that I made love to
F C
It was in a park
G F C
In the lower pleasure gardens in Bournemouth
G F C
In summer just after dark
G F C G F C
My mind was reeling. Oh what a feeling.
G F C
I missed the bus and walked twelve miles home
G F C G F C G F
And it really didn't seem far.
C G D C G
And all through my seventeenth summer
G D C D7 G
Running together from crowds and ties
G D C D7 G
Taking our clothes off and feeling each other
G D C D7 G
With fingers and senses and mouths and eyes,
C G C G
Incurring the glances of old disapproval
C G F D7
From elderly local inhabitant's eyes
G D C D G
Oh time time we hardly even knew you
G D7 C D7 G
You didn't touch us with your lies.
F C G F C
G F C
In the halcyon days of my late adolescence
G F C
My goal seemed clearly in sight
G F C
Playing electric guitar with a beat group
G C
We set the ballrooms alight
G F C
Camping it up for the dyed blonde receptionists
G F C
Who told us we were al-ri-yi-yight
G F C
On an ego trip for a teenage superstar
G F C G F C G F C G F C
On thirty shillings a night.
G F C
And so it fell that I came up to London
G F C
To look for fortune and fame
G F C
Starry eyed in my seaside successes
G F C
And much too sure of the game.
G F C
First girl I met there
G F C
I thought I'd get there
G F C
But the first girl was nearly the last girl
G F C
She left my eyes in the drain.
Part II (slower)
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D7 G D7 G
She sat on my floor in the dead of the night
C G D7
Rolling a joint and looking round for a light
C G C G
Her clothes were so black and her face was so white
D7
How could I know what was right?
C D7 G
And I sat all huddled upon my bed
C D7
Watching her in my innocence
C D7 G
And it was no sense at all, but too much sense
D C G D7 C G
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
D7 G D7 G
Oh Artaud's anthology lay spread on the floor
C G D7
And the thoughts that she gave me, I'd not met before
C G C G
And stranded half hypnotised, I watched her in awe
D7
Of everything that she stood for.
C D7 C G
And I wanted more than anything to be like her with every sense
C D7 G
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
D C G
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
D7 G D7 G
She came over to me and kissed me in play
C G D7
Taking my hands between her legs as she lay
C G C G
And she looked in my eyes but I turned them away
D7
Finding no words fit to say.
C D7 C
And I hated myself, but could not move
D7
Shattered in my confidence,
C D7 G
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
D C G
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
D7 G D7 G
Now the stare of the lightbulb tore holes in my brain
C G D7
As she got up in silence that hung like a stain
C G C G
And I wanted to speak, or call out her name,
D7
But how could I begin to explain?
C D7 C
And my prosecuting room still holds a strand of her hair
D7
In evidence,
C D7 G
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
D C G
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
D7 G D7 G
Oh I still think about her when the night fills with rain
C G D7
And speaks with its voices uneasy and vain
C G C G
And I think were I maybe to find her again,
D7
Oh I'd probably see her more plain.
C D7 C
And I should have known she was just like me,
D7
It was after all only commonsense,
C D7 G
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
D C G
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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G F C (repeat)
G F C
At first I didn't go out much at all
G F C
I just stayed home in my chains.
G F C
Picking over the threads of my confidence
G F C
And searching for the remains.
G F C
And when I couldn't stand any more of it
G F C
Going down to a club.
G F C
Mixing in with the sounds and the crowds
G F C G F C G F C
I let the music cover me up.
G F C
And so it came that I stood disillusioned
C F C
By everything I'd been told.
G F C
I just didn't believe love existed
G F C
They were all just digging for gold.
G F C
Widows and bankers and typists and bus'nessmen
G F C
Loved each other they said.
G F C
But all it was though was just a manoeuvre
G F C G F C G F C
The quickest way into bed.
B7 G D7 G D Em D
And only, lonely, the harlequins and painted phonies
Em B7 Em B7
Pick their ways, through the haze
G D7 G
Of highs and lows and blues
C B C B
And all that I could do was to pick my way to you
C B
Though I didn't tell you
C B
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.
B7 G D7 G D Em D
They sigh, they lie, the refugees and superhe-roes
Em B7 Em B7 G D7 G
On ice, so nice to see you, what's your name?
C B C B
And all that I could do was to say the same to you
C B C B
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.
Am D7 G
Though the street lamp cut through the curfew
Am D7 G
It shed no light on our mind
Am D7 G
It would have been so easy to love you
C7 B7
At any other time.
B7 G D7 G D Em D
Only lonely, you came to me the night hung coldly
Em B7 Em B7 G D7 G
In your eyes, some other time I might have stayed with you
C B C B
But all that I could do was to turn around to you
C B C B
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.
Am C Em Bb+
Ba ba ba alright now
G F C (repeat)
G F C
And so I followed the other's example
G F C
And jumped into the melee
G F C
In hunting grounds of Earls Court and Swiss Cottage
G F C
I did my best to get laid
G F C G F C
Beer cans and parties, deb girls and arties
G F C
Bouncing around in the social confusion
G F C
Missing and making the grade.
G F C G F C G C G G
(Instrumental Solo - ad lib)
Part IV (Slower)
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N.F F G
The very first time I must confess
F G
I thought you'd be like all of the rest
F C
And we'd be strangers once again
A# D7
By the time we were dressed.
F G
But when you'd smoked your cigarette
F G
And talked of some people that we'd met
F C A# D7
I found myself asking was it set, did you have to go yet.
A# F7
And so you laughed and then kissed me
Eb F C
And stayed for the whole weekend
A# F
Although the bed was so narrow
Eb F7 C G F G
We had to sleep end to end.
F G
And so the weeks passed through my brain
F G
In their dadaistic chain
F C A# D7
I found myself seeing you again, and again and again
F G
And all you gave you gave it free
F G
Asking for nothing back from me
F C A# D7
You gave yourself unselfishly as a part of me.
A# F7
And where I thought that just plucking
Eb F C
The fruits of the bed was enough
A# F
It grew to be less like fucking
Eb F7 C G C G7
And more like making love.
C G F C Gsus4 G
Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me
C G F C Gsus4 G
And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me
C G F C Gsus4 G
And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me
C G F C Gsus4
And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.
A# A Ab D
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