Al Stewart – Timeless Skies (Guitar)

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Play: D Key: Eb [Intro] | D | % | % | % | [Verse 1]
D                 A               D    D/E D/F# G
 While travelling northwards on a back country  lane

              Bm           Em       Bm
I came on the village where first I grew

D               A            D    D/E  D/F# G
 And stopped to climb up the hill once a-   gain

                      Bm            Em         Bm
Looking down from the tracks to the grey slate roofs

  Bm                  A             Bm              A
I watched the village moving as the day went slowly by

         D    A/C# Bm  A       G          D/F#     Em
In the fields we   lay here my very first love and I

      Bm         A      E
Under timeless arcadian skies

      Bm         A       G
Under timeless arcadian skies
[Interlude] | D | % | [Verse 2]
D          A                 D D/E D/F# G
 The old canal lies sleeping under the  sky

               Bm        Em     Bm
The barges are gone to a lost decade

   D         A                  D   D/E   D/F# G
On overgrown banks here lovers' footsteps went by

            Bm       Em         Bm
Long before ever the roads were made

    Bm             A               Bm                  A
And in our turn we passed here and carved our names on trees

       D     A/C#  Bm A    G           D/F#    Em
As the days washed by like waves of an endless sea

      Bm         A      E
Under timeless arcadian skies

      Bm         A       G
Under timeless arcadian skies
[Interlude] | D | % | [Bridge]
F6   E7                Am
Time runs through your fingers

B         Em         B             Em
You never hold it at all till it’s gone

F6    E7             Am     B
 Some fragments just linger with you

     Em          B              Em
Like snow in the spring hanging on
[Interlude] | D | % | [Verse 3]
D           A         D    D/E D/F# G
 I left the village behind in  the  night

               Bm          Em        Bm
To fade like a sail in the darkening seas

D               A              D  D/E   D/F# G
 The shifts and changes in the patterns of   life

                Bm            Em   Bm
Will weather it more than the centuries

    Bm         A            Bm              A
And in another village in a far off foreign land

    D   A/C# Bm     A   G       D/F#   Em
The new day  breaks out opening up its hand

        Bm          A           E
And the sun has the moon in his eyes

      Bm           A       G
As he wanders the timeless skies
[Outro] | D | % | % | % | D