Prefab Sprout – The Golden Calf (Ukulele)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: maguri The Golden Calf (1988) (McAloon) From: "From Langley Park to Memphis" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHORDS
F#7sus4  2-4-4-4-0-0
Dmaj7    x-x-0-2-2-2
Dmaj9    x-x-0-2-2-0
A/G      3-x-2-2-x-x
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRO | F#7sus4 | % | Dmaj7 | % | | F#7sus4 | % | Dmaj7 | % | | A | % | % | A A/G |
A                              A
Once upon a time I stalked the streets on raining evenings

         Dmaj9                          A    A/G
When the distant sea blended with the sky

     A                              A
Past Coliseums filled with brass on pavements carved from toasted glass

  Dmaj9                          A    
I carried in my heart a word or two

     F#7sus4
Your dashing horseman all gone away

     Dmaj7
Left you the stable bill to pay

    F#7sus4                           Dmaj7
And now the golden calf has turned to clay

F#7sus4
All my feelings dressed in gloves

         Dmaj7
Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love

F#7sus4                               Dmaj7
White and open-necked you would still play

A                             A
I'd resort to sleepwalking to catch the mood that fills the sails

     Dmaj9                               A    A/G
With harvest nets and tides don't ever bring

    A                              Dmaj9  
But every night was Halloween, and every friend fell in between

    Dmaj9                          A  
And how capricious nature ruled my mind

     F#7sus4
Your dashing horseman all gone away

     Dmaj7
Left you the stable bill to pay

    F#7sus4                           Dmaj7
And now the golden calf has turned to clay

F#7sus4
All my feelings dressed in gloves

         Dmaj7
Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love

F#7sus4                               Dmaj7
White and open-necked you would still play
INTERLUDE 1 | Dsus2 | % | C#m | % | | Dsus2 | % | C#m | A/G |
A                              A
Once upon a time I stalked the streets on raining evenings

         Dmaj9                          A    A/G
When the distant sea blended with the sky

   A                                Dmaj9  
My mouth was full of cigarettes, my hair is full of long-term bets

    Dmaj9                              A    A/G
But you would always make me see the day  

     F#7sus4
Your dashing horseman all gone away

     Dmaj7
Left you the stable bill to pay

    F#7sus4                           Dmaj7
And now the golden calf has turned to clay

F#7sus4
All my feelings dressed in gloves

         Dmaj7
Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love

F#7sus4                               Dmaj7
White and open-necked you would still play
INTERLUDE 2 | F#7sus4 | % | Dmaj7 | % | | F#7sus4 | % |
Dmaj7                             F#7sus4            Dmaj7    
  I sound so different these days,  I barely can believe I'm me

F#7sus4                    Dmaj7    
  If I didn't know better,   I would swear I was someone else

F#7sus4                  Dmaj7    
   Lord I can't believe,    I don't believe I'm me

F#7sus4       Dmaj7    
   But who on earth could I be?
SOLO | A | % | % | % | | Dmaj9 | % | A | % |
     F#7sus4
Your dashing horseman all gone away

     Dmaj7
Left you the stable bill to pay

    F#7sus4                           Dmaj7
And now the golden calf has turned to clay

F#7sus4
All my feelings dressed in gloves

         Dmaj7
Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love

F#7sus4                               Dmaj7
White and open-necked you would still play, play, play, play ...

     F#7sus4
Your dashing horseman all gone away

     Dmaj7
Left you the stable bill to pay

    F#7sus4                           Dmaj7
And now the golden calf has turned to clay

F#7sus4
All my feelings dressed in gloves

         Dmaj7
Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love

F#7sus4                               Dmaj7
White and open-necked you would still play
(fade over last chorus)