Al Stewart – On The Border (Guitar)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!macon Thu Jul 23 11:25:40 PDT 1992 Article: 997 of alt.guitar.tab Path: nevada.edu!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!macon From: [email protected] (Glen Macon) Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab Subject: music : ON THE BORDER Keywords: (Al Stewart) Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: 23 Jul 92 13:20:31 GMT Sender: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] (Glen Macon) Organization: COMMODORE West Cester PA Lines: 73 084 Title: ON THE BORDER (Al Stewart) F#m
                F#m
                The fishing boats go out across the evening water

                D
                Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border

                    Bm
                The winds whip up the waves so loud

                    A                 G
                The ghost moon sails among the clouds

                    F#m              E           F#m
                And turns the rifles into silver on the border

                F#m
                On my wall the colours of the maps are running

                     D
                From Africa the winds they talk of changes coming

                    Bm
                The torches flair up in the night

                    A                  G
                The hand that sets the farms alight

                    F#m                E                    F#m
                Has spread the word to those who're waiting on the border

                A
                In the vllage where I grew up

                Em7
                Nothing seems the same

                              D                                A
                But still you never see the change from day to day

                           D                        C#   [C# B A G# F# F = single notes] 
                And no one notices the customs slip away
F#m
                F#m
                Late last night the rain was knocking on my window

                  D
                I moved across the darkened room and in the lampglow

                  Bm
                I thought I saw down in the street

                    A             G
                The spirit of the century

                F#m             E                  F#m
                Telling us that we're all standing on the border

                A
                In the islands where I grew up

                Em7
                Nothing seems the same

                              D                             A
                It's just the patterns that remain an empty shell

                              D   
                But there's a strangeness in the air 

                             C#     [C# B A G# F# F = single notes]
                You feel too well
F#m
                F#m
                The fishing boats go out across the evening water

                D
                Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border

                    Bm
                The winds whip up the waves so loud

                    A                 G
                The ghost moon sails among the clouds

                    F#m              E           F#m
                And turns the rifles into silver on the border

                D
                On the border

                F#m
                On the border

                D
                On the border

                F#m  
                (fade out)
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