Al Stewart – The Loneliest Place On The Map (Guitar)

Capo 3
Key
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Chords

Am               Bb+5(x13330)
This place is so far 

Am             Bb                    Dm
Away from what passes for civilized life

                 Am               B    Bb+5
No shops and no cars and no city lights 

Am                Bb+5
Just a river of stars

Am        Bb                    Dm
Over the southernmost ocean so cold

                  Am                 B  B#o7 (x34242)
A small group of rocks, seagulls and ice

Em              Bm
Some ramshackle huts

Em          Bm
A paper in French from long ago

Dm             Am  F#dim7(2x121x) E
A finger that juts out into the foam

Am               Bb+5
No boats come this way

Am         Bb                       Dm
A few expeditions that pass now and then

                   Am                     B Bb+5
They`ll be back someday but I don`t know when

          Am                    Gm
It`s the loneliest place on the map

F                      E
Night time is utterly black

   Dm                      C
I came here by some grave mishap

      Bb+5                      Am   Bb  Am  Bb (instrumental verse)
And I can`t find my way, my way back

Em            Bm
It`s all as remote

Em            Bm
As the wintry smile that you gave

Dm                    Am
As you buttoned your coat

F#dim7        E
And love was erased

Am          Bb+5
So this is goodbye

Am         Bb              Dm
I see you silently rowing away

             Am              B  Bb+5
The desolate sky threatening rain

          Am                    Gm
It`s the loneliest place on the map

F                      E
Night time is utterly black

   Dm                      C
I came here by some grave mishap

      Bb+5                      Am   Bb  Am  
And I can`t find my way, my way back