Al Stewart – Night Of The Fourth Of May (Guitar)
Capo 1
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Chords
[Intro]
Dm
(Riff some other time...Most chords best played as Bar chords)
Dm G F C Dm Ah the days they flew by and the leaves fell from the trees F C Bb F Gm And many times you came around and many times you slept with me F C Bb F Gm And every time that we made love you wrote it down in your diary D Lady of ladies Gm F Gm F Eb D But I would always say to you don't ask about tomorrow Gm F Gm F Eb D Give what you have take what you need, your time is only now Eb D Don't try to tie me down to promises Cm D Live for today, today is all there is Gm Eb D Gm And freedom seems to be everything to me Dm G F C Dm I took you down to a party on the night of the fourth of May F C Bb F Gm And a strange and growing restlessness had hung in the air all day F C Bb F Gm The need to try and tear down and destroy all that we made D Lady of ladies Gm F Gm F Eb D You whispered in my ear and asked me if I fancied her Gm F Gm F Eb D you told me that he'd phoned you when I was in America Eb D daring each other just to say okay Cm D swap for tonight didn't I always say Gm Cm D Gm that freedom seems to be everything to me Cm D Gm And she came and she sat down beside me Cm D Gm and you found an excuse to go downstairs Cm D Eb D and she smiled and made the kind of conversation that you do Cm D Gm and later on she said my last train has gone Cm D Gm oh I wonder if you would take me home Cm D and I found you in the hallway Gm D and told you that was all that I would do Eb D just run her home and it's through Cm D oh I thought that you knew Gm Bb F Eb but I must confess, I laid my head on her breast Gm F Eb and it seemed so hard to pull it away Gm Bb F Eb her hand touched my hand and her eyes were offering the rest Gm F Eb if it wasn't for you oh I would have stayed Gm F Gm F Gm but I came back home through the morning to find you lying awake Gm F Gm D and I knew all at once what you'd done and I heard myself say Gm (1 Down stroke per beat)
why did you have to sleep with him anyone else wouldn't have mattered half as much as him
Dm G F C Dm I don't want to touch you somehow you feel unclean F C Bb F Gm I just wish that you were five hundred miles away from me F C Bb F Gm Don't talk at all, don't start to cry just pick up your things D Lady of ladies Gm F Gm F Eb D And though I'd always told myself that when our time ended Gm F Gm F Eb D I'd walk away with no regrets and no attempts to stay Eb D Somehow it doesn't seem to be that way Cm D I find I'm needing every word you say Gm Cm D Gm This freedom seems to be everything to me Cm D Gm Cm D Gm And you went up to Cambridge and you stayed in your brother's room Cm D Eb D And you wrote me a letter and sent it the same afternoon Cm D Gm Cm D Gm You said I just want to hurt myself. Oh I need you so badly now Cm D Gm D And you told me without you there seems to be no horizon at all Cm D Cm D Just no crack in the wall, no place lower to fall Gm F Gm Gm F Gm "Hey don't leave me, don't leave me, the shapelessness of the dawn Gm F Gm D Floods above and beneath me, I just can't go on Cm D Eb D And I had to walk right into the trap, and I had to say please come back Gm F Gm D Though I felt all the while my resistance slipping away Gm (1 Down stroke per beat)
Why did I have to fall for you anyone else wouldn't have hurt me half as much as you