Al Stewart – Beleeka Doodle Day (Guitar)

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[Intro] F Dm A Dm Dm F A Dm A [Verse 1]
   F
I could have gone to

 A
Cambridge with

Dm
 Lionel

A   Bb
     I think

                    Dm
I tried to raise a pound

F   Dm                 A     Dm
      Just to see the university

Bb                              Dm A
  And find the scenes she hung
around
F         A      Dm
 Is your mind a menagerie
Perhaps
Bb
  I mean it's hard to say

Dm  F               A         Dm
     A pterodactyl built its nest on me

Bb           G                   Dm
  I'm feeling strange but quite okay

Bb         G
  On this beleeka doodle day
Dm [Verse 2]
Dm A Dm A Dm A Dm F                      Dm
                       Archimedes and his orchestra

Bb            Dm
  Who loudly disapprove of life

F
 Got mad when

          A
I called them unmusical

Bb
  And tried to land me with a wife

F
 Out in  San

 A     Dm
Francisco's
Wonderland
Bb                           Dm
  The purple poet kneels to pray

A   F
     But

             A      Dm        C
I just hang around your city and

Bb         Bb   G
  I don't have anything to say

Dm   Bb         Bb      Dm
       On this beleeka doodle day
[Instrumental] A Dm Dm A D F [Verse 3] I had a week once in
Dm  C   Bb
   Italy  with
Mike and
               Dm A
Robin and some songs

F               A
  I had a girl once in

Dm        C
  Sweden but

Bb                            Dm
  I haven't seen her for too long

A  F
    I drifted down to the

 Dm
Cousin's  Inn

Bb                 Dm
   The usual people  were all there

 F            A      Dm       F
I saw a girl in the soft red light

Bb   Bm                    Dm
  I smiled but she looked away

C   Bb       Bm    Dm
      On my beleeka doodle day
[Instrumental] Dm Am Dm A D F [Verse 4] I wrote a song just before the dawn
Bb
  And then

         Dm
I lost it  now it's gone

F       Dm
 I spent  all day playing

 Dm
Monopoly

Bb                   Dm
  It seemed to feel like getting on

F
 Sometimes

          A      Dm
I wonder how it feels to be

Bb
  Paul

                   Dm
McCartney or the  Queen

F                     A     Dm
 I wonder how they'd be if they were me

Bb            G                Dm
  I think it's gonna start to rain

Bb         G
  On this beleeka doodle day
Dm [Verse 5]
Dm Am Dm Am Dm A D F
                      Or
Jack the
        A
Ripper and

 Dm     C
Hippocrates

Bb                            Dm
  They're out to get me in the  end

F                              D        C
 I think they'll find me by the ruins' trees

Bb                       Dm
  Without a candle or a friend

D  F                            Dm          C
    Then they'll bring me to the  wizard's cave

Bb                         Dm
  And softly mold me into clay

F                A   Dm  C
 And lock me in with no telephone

Bb                              Dm
  And laugh and throw the keys away

Bb     Bm     Dm
On my beleeka doodle day
[Verse 6]
Am Dm Am Dm A Dm F
And so to every land

A                    C Bb                              Dm
 I would like to give    my thanks for lending me your room

F               A
  I stayed one night but

   Dm    C
I had to go

Bb
   I think

            Dm
I'll maybe come back soon

A  F
    Of all the girls that

A
 I have ever known

C   Bb                             Dm
      There wasn't one who didn't play

 F                       A
They came and went just like the newspapers

Bb             G
  And left me here to find my way

Dm   Bb                         G Dm
       Through my beleeka doodle   Day