Love Chronicles
by Al Stewart
Part I
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F# E B F#
I can remember the first girl that I did love
E B
It was Stephanie
F# E B F#
In kindergarten arithmetic classes she used to
E B
Sit next to me
F# E B
I'd pass her sticky sweets under the table
F# E B
Where the teacher couldn't see
F# E
Although she wouldn't remember me now
B F# E B
Sometimes I wonder where she can be.
F# E B F# E B F# E B
F# E B
I can remember the first girl I kissed it was
F# E
Christine when I was ten.
F# E B
I'd been told we were moving away
F# E B
I thought I'd never see her again
F# E B
Oh don't forget me
F# E B
I'll be back when they let me
F# E B
Before you learn how to lie when you're leaving
F# E B
Love is so much easier then
F# E B F# E B
C#7 F# B F#
And at school would you believe three hundred boys
C#7 F#
And no girls at all
C#7 F# B
But you're a fool if you should leave
B F# C#7 F#
Just think of the joys of rugby football
B F# C# B F#
And prep in the morning and Brylcream and acne
B F# E C#
And cross-country running to kill evil thoughts
F# B
I'm surprised that I survived
F# C#7 E B
I ran ten thousand miles with my back to the wall.
F# E B F# E B
F# E B F#
I can remember the first girl that I made love to
E B
It was in a park
F# E B
In the lower pleasure gardens in Bournemouth
F# E B
In summer just after dark
F# E B F# E B
My mind was reeling. Oh what a feeling.
F# E B
I missed the bus and walked twelve miles home
F# E B F# E B F# E
And it really didn't seem far.
B F# C# B F#
And all through my seventeenth summer
F# C# B C#7 F#
Running together from crowds and ties
F# C# B C#7 F#
Taking our clothes off and feeling each other
F# C# B C#7 F#
With fingers and senses and mouths and eyes,
B F# B F#
Incurring the glances of old disapproval
B F# E C#7
From elderly local inhabitant's eyes
F# C# B C# F#
Oh time time we hardly even knew you
F# C#7 B C#7 F#
You didn't touch us with your lies.
E B F# E B
F# E B
In the halcyon days of my late adolescence
F# E B
My goal seemed clearly in sight
F# E B
Playing electric guitar with a beat group
F# B
We set the ballrooms alight
F# E B
Camping it up for the dyed blonde receptionists
F# E B
Who told us we were al-ri-yi-yight
F# E B
On an ego trip for a teenage superstar
F# E B F# E B F# E B F# E B
On thirty shillings a night.
F# E B
And so it fell that I came up to London
F# E B
To look for fortune and fame
F# E B
Starry eyed in my seaside successes
F# E B
And much too sure of the game.
F# E B
First girl I met there
F# E B
I thought I'd get there
F# E B
But the first girl was nearly the last girl
F# E B
She left my eyes in the drain.
Part II (slower)
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C#7 F# C#7 F#
She sat on my floor in the dead of the night
B F# C#7
Rolling a joint and looking round for a light
B F# B F#
Her clothes were so black and her face was so white
C#7
How could I know what was right?
B C#7 F#
And I sat all huddled upon my bed
B C#7
Watching her in my innocence
B C#7 F#
And it was no sense at all, but too much sense
C# B F# C#7 B F#
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
C#7 F# C#7 F#
Oh Artaud's anthology lay spread on the floor
B F# C#7
And the thoughts that she gave me, I'd not met before
B F# B F#
And stranded half hypnotised, I watched her in awe
C#7
Of everything that she stood for.
B C#7 B F#
And I wanted more than anything to be like her with every sense
B C#7 F#
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
C# B F#
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
C#7 F# C#7 F#
She came over to me and kissed me in play
B F# C#7
Taking my hands between her legs as she lay
B F# B F#
And she looked in my eyes but I turned them away
C#7
Finding no words fit to say.
B C#7 B
And I hated myself, but could not move
C#7
Shattered in my confidence,
B C#7 F#
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
C# B F#
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
C#7 F# C#7 F#
Now the stare of the lightbulb tore holes in my brain
B F# C#7
As she got up in silence that hung like a stain
B F# B F#
And I wanted to speak, or call out her name,
C#7
But how could I begin to explain?
B C#7 B
And my prosecuting room still holds a strand of her hair
C#7
In evidence,
B C#7 F#
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
C# B F#
That took me to the bridge of impotence.
C#7 F# C#7 F#
Oh I still think about her when the night fills with rain
B F# C#7
And speaks with its voices uneasy and vain
B F# B F#
And I think were I maybe to find her again,
C#7
Oh I'd probably see her more plain.
B C#7 B
And I should have known she was just like me,
C#7
It was after all only commonsense,
B C#7 F#
But it was no sense at all, but too much sense
C# B F#
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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F# E B (repeat)
F# E B
At first I didn't go out much at all
F# E B
I just stayed home in my chains.
F# E B
Picking over the threads of my confidence
F# E B
And searching for the remains.
F# E B
And when I couldn't stand any more of it
F# E B
Going down to a club.
F# E B
Mixing in with the sounds and the crowds
F# E B F# E B F# E B
I let the music cover me up.
F# E B
And so it came that I stood disillusioned
B E B
By everything I'd been told.
F# E B
I just didn't believe love existed
F# E B
They were all just digging for gold.
F# E B
Widows and bankers and typists and bus'nessmen
F# E B
Loved each other they said.
F# E B
But all it was though was just a manoeuvre
F# E B F# E B F# E B
The quickest way into bed.
A#7 F# C#7 F# C# D#m C#
And only, lonely, the harlequins and painted phonies
D#m A#7 D#m A#7
Pick their ways, through the haze
F# C#7 F#
Of highs and lows and blues
B A# B A#
And all that I could do was to pick my way to you
B A#
Though I didn't tell you
B A#
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.
A#7 F# C#7 F# C# D#m C#
They sigh, they lie, the refugees and superhe-roes
D#m A#7 D#m A#7 F# C#7 F#
On ice, so nice to see you, what's your name?
B A# B A#
And all that I could do was to say the same to you
B A# B A#
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.
G#m C#7 F#
Though the street lamp cut through the curfew
G#m C#7 F#
It shed no light on our mind
G#m C#7 F#
It would have been so easy to love you
B7 A#7
At any other time.
A#7 F# C#7 F# C# D#m C#
Only lonely, you came to me the night hung coldly
D#m A#7 D#m A#7 F# C#7 F#
In your eyes, some other time I might have stayed with you
B A# B A#
But all that I could do was to turn around to you
B A# B A#
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.
G#m B D#m Bb+
Ba ba ba alright now
F# E B (repeat)
F# E B
And so I followed the other's example
F# E B
And jumped into the melee
F# E B
In hunting grounds of Earls Court and Swiss Cottage
F# E B
I did my best to get laid
F# E B F# E B
Beer cans and parties, deb girls and arties
F# E B
Bouncing around in the social confusion
F# E B
Missing and making the grade.
F# E B F# E B F# B F# F#
(Instrumental Solo - ad lib)
Part IV (Slower)
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N.E E F#
The very first time I must confess
E F#
I thought you'd be like all of the rest
E B
And we'd be strangers once again
A C#7
By the time we were dressed.
E F#
But when you'd smoked your cigarette
E F#
And talked of some people that we'd met
E B A C#7
I found myself asking was it set, did you have to go yet.
A E7
And so you laughed and then kissed me
D E B
And stayed for the whole weekend
A E
Although the bed was so narrow
D E7 B F# E F#
We had to sleep end to end.
E F#
And so the weeks passed through my brain
E F#
In their dadaistic chain
E B A C#7
I found myself seeing you again, and again and again
E F#
And all you gave you gave it free
E F#
Asking for nothing back from me
E B A C#7
You gave yourself unselfishly as a part of me.
A E7
And where I thought that just plucking
D E B
The fruits of the bed was enough
A E
It grew to be less like fucking
D E7 B F# B F#7
And more like making love.
B F# E B F#sus4 F#
Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me
B F# E B F#sus4 F#
And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me
B F# E B F#sus4 F#
And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me
B F# E B F#sus4
And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.
A G# G D
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