Al Stewart – Palace Of Versailles (Guitar)

    Em                 C
The wands of smoke are rising

         D               G
From the walls of the Bastille

    C                      Am
And through the streets of Paris

       D              B7
Runs a sense of the unreal

    Em               C
The Kings have all departed

      D              G
Their servants are nowhere

   C                Am
We burned out their mansions

       D              B7
In the name of Robespierre

             C
And still we wait

D           G   D G
 To see the day begin

    C     D             G  D   G
Our time ... is wasting in the wind

          B   C
Wondering why

          B       C
Wondering why, it echoes

            Em            B   [ Em ]
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

  Em                C
Inside the midnight councils

    D                 G
The lamps are burning low

       C                Am
On you sit and talk all through the night

            D                B7
But there's just no place to go

    Em           C
And Bonaparte is coming

         D             G
With his army from the south

  C                 Am
Marat your days are numbered

    D               B7
And we live hand to mouth

         C
While we wait

D           G   D G
 To see the day begin

    C     D             G  D   G
Our time ... is wasting in the wind

          B   C
Wondering why

          B       C
Wondering why, it echoes

            Em            B   [ Em ]
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

     Em                 C
The ghost of revolution

         D               G
Still prowls the Paris streets

    C                      Am
Down all the restless centuries

        D           B7
It wonders incomplete

     Em                 C
It speaks inside the cheap red wine

         D               G
Of cafe summer nights

    C                      Am
Its red and amber voices

        D           B7
Call the cars at traffic lights

           C
Why do you wait

D           G   D G
 To see the day begin

    C     D             G  D   G
Our time ... is wasting in the wind

          B   C
Wondering why

          B       C
Wondering why, it echoes

            Em            B     Em       Em
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

Em         Am   D     G
 Wondering why ... it echoes

            Em            B     [ Em }
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

| Em Am | D Gmaj7 | Cmaj7 Am | B |
(repeat and fade)