Album - Turn of The Tide (1981)
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1. Waiting On The Borderline
2. How Do You Feel Now?
3. Back To The Wall
4. Highway For Fools
5. Echoes And Shadows
6. Death Of A City
7. I'm Like A Train
8. Doctor Doctor
9. Life Is For Living
10. In Memory Of The Martyrs
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Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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Song - Waiting On The Borderline
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Track 1
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Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard
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CAPO 3rd FRET
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INTRO
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Em C D Bm X2
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VERSE 1
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Em C
Going down with a troubled mind
D Bm
You leave me waiting on the border line
Em C
I'm thinking it's a waste of time
D Bm
Taking me for a ride
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VERSE 2
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Em C
You say that you're good for me
D Bm
Was a time when I'd let it be
Em C
But now there's no reality
D Bm
Do you think that I'm blind
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PRE CHORUS
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Em G
Get back to your own side of the highway
F#m C
Straying across the line
Em G
I know you're a heart breaking lover
F#m C
Isn't any other time to take a ride
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CHORUS
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C Em
Get back in the long grass
C Em
Get back to the street
C Bm
Go take another walk
Em
Don't bother me
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BREAK
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Em C D Bm
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VERSE 3
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Em C
Good loving is hard to find
D Bm
You keep playing the same old rhyme
Em C
Got the feeling that you're gonna be
D Bm
Traveling down the line
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VERSE 4
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Em C
You play in another key
D Bm
Go tell your friends that I set you free
Em C
I know the way it used to be
D Bm
Watching you hitch a ride
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PRE CHORUS
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Em G
Get back to your own side of the highway
F#m C
Straying across the line
Em G
I know you're a heart breaking lover
F#m C
Isn't any other time to take a ride
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CHORUS
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C Em
Get back in the long grass
C Em
Get back to the street
C Bm
Go take another walk
Em
Don't bother me
SYNTH
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Em C D Bm X8
Fade Out...........
ENJOY........
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Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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Song - How Do You Feel
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Track 2
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Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard
INTRO - Piano
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C G C G F G
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VERSE 1
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C
How do you feel now
G Am
We've got a reason to go on
G F
Newly born
Dm G
Seems like I've waited for a lifetime
Am C
But honey I believed in you
F G Am Bm
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VERSE 2
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C G
When I saw her face I had to cry
Am
I don't know why
G F
Is she real
Dm G
Seems like I've waited for a lifetime
Am C
But honey I believed in you
Am F
To make my dreams all come true
C Bm G
We've got a child
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CHORUS
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Am G Dm
I tried and tried to talk it over
Am G Dm
Seemed like we'd waited a million years
F G C
Then you conceived our child was born
F
And we were one
Dm
Picked her up put her by your side
G
Saw the smile that you couldn't hide
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SAX
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C Bm G Am G F
Dm G Am C Am F
C Bm
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CHORUS
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Am G Dm
I tried and tried to talk it over
Am G Dm
Seemed like we'd waited a million years
F G C
Then you conceived our child was born
F
And we were one
Dm
Picked her up put her by your side
G
Saw the smile that you couldn't hide
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VERSE 3
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C
How do you feel now
G Am
We've got a reason to go on
G F
Newly born
Dm G
Seems like I've waited for a lifetime
Am C
But honey I believed in you
Am G
To make my dreams all come true
F C
We've got a child
Am F C
Repeat and Fade Out...........
ENJOY...........
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Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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Song - Back To The Wall
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Track 3
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Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard
INTRO
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Am G Am
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VERSE 1
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Am
Stranger at the gate, let him in
Am
Stranger at the gate, let him in
G
Stranger at the gate, let him in
Am
Won't you let him in?
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VERSE 2
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Am
He's been waiting on the other side
Am
He's been waiting on the other side
G
He's been waiting for the turn of the tide
Am
Won't you let him in?
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PRE CHORUS
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F Am
Promises leave you with nothing to show
F Am Em
Destiny leaves you with nowhere to go
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CHORUS
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Am
Back to the wall
Have you seen the light
Is your soul worth saving
F
Back to the wall
Can you pay the price
Then your life is waiting
Dm
Down by the shore
We can help you no more
Am G Am
Standing with our back to the wall
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SOLO - Am C Am G Am X2
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BRIDGE
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Am
Is your soul worth saving
(Stranger at the gate, let him in)
(Stranger at the gate, let him in)
G
Have you seen the light
Am
(Stranger at the gate, let him in, won't you let him in)
Am
Then your life is waiting
(He's been waiting on the other side)
(He's been waiting on the other side)
G
Can you pay the price
(He's been waiting for the turn of the tide
Am
(Won't you let him in)
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PRE CHORUS
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F Am
Promises leave you with nothing to show
F Am Em
Destiny leaves you with nowhere to go
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CHORUS
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Am
Back to the wall
Have you seen the light
Is your soul worth saving
F
Back to the wall
Can you pay the price
Then your life is waiting
Dm
Down by the shore
We can help you no more
Am G Am
Standing with our back to the wall
Yea Yea Yea
Am G Am G Am G Am
ENJOY..........
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Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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Song - Highway For Fools
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Track 4
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Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard
INTRO
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E G
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VERSE 1
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A
You got the groove
I got to move
G
Cause suddenly something's unreal
A
I got to go
Get up and go
E
'Cause you ain't the way that I feel
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CHORUS
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E F G A
I know what I like
E F G A
And it ain't looking at you
E F G A
If I have to believe
Bm
I believe in myself and nobody else
E
Your kind of love ain't for real
E G
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VERSE 2
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A
I got the wheels
I got the deals
G
But suddenly you ain't so cool
A
Great God above it's diamond love
E
But that kind of rock don't appeal
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CHORUS
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E F G A
I know what I like
E F G A
And it ain't looking at you
E F G A
If I have to believe
Bm
I believe in myself and nobody else
E
Your kind of love ain't for real
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SOLO
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E
D A D A Bm E
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VERSE 3
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A
I got to change it's feeling strange
E
And strange is a highway for fools
A
If it's diamond love that makes you feel good
E
Then that kind of love I can steal
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CHORUS
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E F G A
I know what I like
E F G A
And it ain't looking at you
E F G A
If I have to believe
Bm
I believe in myself and nobody else
E
Your kind of love ain't for real
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SOLO
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E..............
A ............
E.............
A.............
ENJOY.........
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Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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Song - Echoes And Shadows
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Track 5
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Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard
INTRO - Piano
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VERSE 1
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F G Am
Here lie the towers so tall
F D Am
Strange, they tumble and fall
C G
Time softly playing the chord
C
Could be lost in the void
G F
Do your eyes see it all
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VERSE 2
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F G Am
Gone like the dreams that you made
F G Am
Sad how memory fades
C G
Drawn by the mystical sight
Am
There's a voice in the night
G F
And your eyes see it all
F G Am X2
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CHORUS
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Am
Stay with me
D
All I want from you
Am
Just stay with me
D
All I want to do
E
Is look in your eyes
G
And sail on through the night
C
Echoes and shadows
G
Drift through tomorrow's
F
Dreams that you follow
C
Echoes and shadows
G
Drift through tomorrow's
F
Dreams that you follow
Am
In the dark
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VERSE 3
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F G Am
Fools are entranced by the dawn
F G Am
But the wise man misses it all
C G
He laughs and the pages are torn
Am
While the intellect scorns
G F
As he clutches the straws
F G Am
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CHORUS
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Am
Stay with me
D
All I want from you
Am
Just stay with me
D
All I want to do
E
Is look in your eyes
G
And sail on through the night
C
Echoes and shadows
G
Drift through tomorrow's
F
Dreams that you follow
C
Echoes and shadows
G
Drift through tomorrow's
F
Dreams that you follow
C
Echoes and shadows
G
Drift through tomorrow's
F
Dreams that you follow
C G F X2
Fade Out...........
ENJOY............
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Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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Song - Death Of A City
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Track 6
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Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard
VERSE 1
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D C
I look down the street but there's no one there
G D
In the cold, in the dark, in the night air
D C
I call out for life but my heart feels despair
G D
There's no sign of a light in the cold dismal night
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VERSE 2
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D C
The lights have all gone, the clothes are all torn
G D
The people are gone but the victory's won
D C
I call out for life but it's after the day
G D
Now the people are gone just the city alone
D C D X2
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CHORUS
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D C
Eyes look from the second floor
G
Down to the street below
D C
Calm now the wind is slow
D C
See posters once on the wall
C G
Now washed away in the rain
D
Peeling from buildings tall
G
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VERSE 3
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D C
I'll follow you friends to where life never ends
G D
Make our mistakes again as our life lines descend
D C
Time is like dust and the dust is like snow
G D
As it covers the ruins of the life that you know
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CHORUS
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D C
Trees once green now turned to stone
G
Objects that look like ghosts
D C
All of them overgrown
D C
Mist all sight and mind is blurred
G
Lie on your back and cry
D
Words uttered never heard
G
VERSE 4
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D C
I look down the street but there's no one there
G D
In the cold, in the dark, in the night air
D C
I call out for life but my heart feels despair
G D
There's no sign of a light in the cold dismal night
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VERSE 5
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D C
The lights have all gone, the clothes are all torn
G D
The people are gone but the victory's won
D C
I call out for life but it's after the day
G D
Now the people are gone just the city alone
D
ENJOY...........
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Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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Song - I'm Like A Train
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Track 7
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Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard
INTRO - Piano
C D C G A D G D C G
A D
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VERSE 1
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G C
Look around and cry aloud
D C G
Seems so much is happening but I have found
A D
When you awake the sky will shine
G D C G
Even on a cloudy day
A
D
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VERSE 2
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G C
Want to be where I can see
D C G
Oh, so much is happening to you and me
A D G D Em G A D
Oh, will it end, will day turn black? Will we ever see things right? Oh no no
G
And how can we make it through the night?
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SYNTH
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C G C G C D
G D C G D C G
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CHORUS
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G C
I'm like a train that's jumping the track
G
Caught up in the slide and I'll never come back
G C
I turn around and look for a way
C G
Nothing that I can do, nothing that I can say
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BRIDGE
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D C G
What a life I was living before
D C G
Hard to see if you can't find a door
D C D
Seen the turning, know it's burning me to be with you
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CHORUS
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G C
I'm like a train that's jumping the track
G
Caught up in the slide and I'll never come back
G C
I turn around and look for a way
C G
Nothing that I can do, nothing that I can say
G C
I'm like a train that's jumping the track
G
Caught up in the slide and I'll never come back
G C
I turn around and look for a way
C G
Nothing that I can do, nothing that I can say
G C
I'm like a train that's jumping the track
G
Caught up in the slide and I'll never come back
G C
I turn around and look for a way
C G
Nothing that I can do, nothing that I can say
G C
I'm like a train that's jumping the track
G
Caught up in the slide and I'll never come back
G C
I turn around and look for a way
C G
Nothing that I can do, nothing that I can say
SYNTH
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G C G C
Fade Out.....
ENJOY..........
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Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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Song - Doctor Doctor
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Track 8
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Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard
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CAPO 2nd FRET
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INTRO
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Am F X3
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VERSE 1
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Am G
Doctor doctor tell me if you can
F
What is wrong with me
Am
I can't seem to find the key
Am G
Doctor doctor I'm begging on my knees
F
Won't you tell me please
Am
What could be my malady
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CHORUS
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G Am
When I'm down feeling kind of low
G F E
I don't want to be the last to know
Am G
When I'm down crawling cross the floor
F F
I don't want to be, I can't stand to be
E
The last to know
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BRIDGE
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C F
Doctor doctor help me through the day
G C
Give me something natural I can depend on
F G
Doctor doctor it's something that I need
Am
It's a natural panacea
F
Like a cure for every fear
G
It's some of her sweet love
Am
Mixed up with her young blood
F
True love and devotion
G
What a wonderful potion
F C
Tonight, tonight
F E F G
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SYNTH
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E F G Am Ab C Bb C
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VERSE 2
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Am G
Doctor doctor why am I alone
F
Listening to my heart
Am
Beating through the cold dark night
Am G
Doctor doctor I'm shaking in the gloom
F
Could this be defeat
Am
Please don't stop, don't miss a beat
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CHORUS
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G Am
When I'm down feeling kind of low
G F E
I don't want to be the last to know
Am G
When I'm down crawling cross the floor
F F
I don't want to be, I can't stand to be
E
The last to know
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BRIDGE
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C F
Doctor doctor help me through the day
G C
Give me something natural I can depend on
F G
Doctor doctor it's something that I need
Am
It's a natural panacea
F
Like a cure for every fear
G
It's some of her sweet love
Am
Mixed up with her young blood
F
True love and devotion
G
What a wonderful potion
F C
Tonight, tonight
ENJOY..........
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Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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Song - Life Is For Living
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Track 9
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Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard
INTRO
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C G C G C G D
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VERSE 1
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G
You and me
C G
Our life is drifting along
C G D
Watching the world as it's singing it's song
G
High above
C G
Someone is calling to me
C G D
Life is for living and living is free
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VERSE 2
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G
You to me
C G
Are like the sun in the sky
C G D
See how you fly you have wings of your own
G
You and me
C G
Our love will last without end
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VERSE 3
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C G D
Ride with the wind won't you follow me home
G C G
Turn around and see the circles we spin
C G D G
And we're taking our chances on where we begin
G
Up above
C G
The rain is falling on me
C G D G
Life is for living and living is free
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VERSE 4
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G
You to me
C G
Are like the sun in the sky
G D G
See how you fly you have wings of your own
G
You and me
C G
Our love will last without end
C G D
Ride with the wind won't you follow me home
G C G C G D X2
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CHORUS
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D
Taking up time
C Bm C
Trying to write a line till the break of day
D
Given a sign
C
Can you make it rhyme
Bm C
Tell me what to say
D C Bm C
Making it fine can you ease my mind help me drift away
G C G C G D X2
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VERSE 5
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G
Turn around
C G
And see the circles we spin
C G D
Taking our chances on where we begin
G
Up above
C G
The rain is falling on me
C G D G
Life is for living and living is free
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VERSE 6
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G
You to me
C G
Are like the sun in the sky
G D G
See how you fly you have wings of your own
G
You and me
C G
Our love will last without end
C G D
Ride with the wind won't you follow me home
G C G C G D X4
Fade Out.......
ENJOY..........
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Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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Song - In Memory of the Martyrs
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Track 10
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Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard
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CAPO 1st FRET
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E
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VERSE 1
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E
Life is like a tall ship
D
Drifting gently from the shore
A
Time is like a fair wind
E
With a lifetime to explore
E
The beauty that surrounds you
D
Was meant to be adored
A
The problems that surround you
E
Were meant to be ignored
D A E
We are love, we are, we are love
D A E
We are love, we are, we are love
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VERSE 2
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E
I dreampt I held a baby
D
I dreampt I held a child
A
I dreampt I held a young man
E
A prisoner in my hand
E
My hand I could not open
D
The man grew up inside
A
A prisoner without reason
E
Just on the other side
D A E
We are love, we are, we are love
D A E
We are love, we are, we are love
D A E X2
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VERSE 3
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E
The blood red rose of summer
D
Grows elegant and tall
A
In memory of the green grass
E
Beyond the guardian wall
E
The green grass grows forever
D
Beneath the bloody sky
A
In memory of the martyrs
E
She'll cover when they die
D A E
We are love, we are, we are love
D A E
We are love, we are, we are love
D A E
We are love, we are, we are love
D A E
We are love, we are, we are love
D A E X5
ENJOY........