Gordon Lightfoot – Too Many Clues In This Room (Guitar)

Capo 2
Key
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Chords

[Intro] Asus2 Am7 D/A Asus2 Am7 D/A Asus2 [Verse 1]
Asus2                            Am7
The space shuttle ends where the subway begins

          D/A                     Asus2
There's a tear on the face of the moon

                               Am7
From dusk until dawn they have searched all day long

            D/A                    Asus2
But there's too many clues in this room

                               Am7
At best, it is said, we've been locked deep inside

      D/A                        Asus2
Of an old seaman's chest full of charts

                                    Am7
Where maps are contained and what's left of his brains

         D/A                         Asus2
When his crew threw his balls to the sharks
[Chorus]
D              Em
All around the looking glass

A            D
Dancing to a tune

G                C                       F
Sweeping out the house with a fine-tooth comb

F
Which history's shown

         E
Leads to ruin
[Verse 2]
A                              Am7
In a word, it is said, that at times we must fall

        D                       E
But the worst of it all was the lies

   A                            Am7
We died for the cause just like regular outlaws

       D                       E
In the dust of an old lawman's eyes

   A                            Am7
In times best forgot, there was peace, there was not

       D                          E
In her pains Mother Earth came to bloom

    A                         Am7
Her children were born in the eye of the storm

            D                      E
And there's too many clues in this room
[Instrumental] D Em A D G C F E [Verse 3]
Asus2                            Am7
The power that is stored in this no-man's-land of chance

         D/A                            Asus2
Is there someone who knows what they're doin'?

                              Am7
The old soldiers say in their own crusty way

           D                       Asus2
"We've got too many troops in this room"
[Chorus]
D              Em
All around the looking glass

A            D
Dancing to a tune

G                C                       F
Sweeping out the house with a fine-tooth comb

F
Which history's shown

         E
Leads to ruin
[Verse 4]
Asus2                            Am7
The space shuttle ends where the subway begins

           D/A                          Asus2
Praise the Lord there's a train leaving soon

                               Am7
From dusk until dawn they have searched all day long

            D/A                    Asus2
But there's too many clues in this room
[Outro] A Am7 D/A E A Am7 D/A E A Am7 D/A E