Procol Harum – Nothing But The Truth (Guitar)

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01 Nothing But the Truth Brooker / Reid Is it on, Tommy? (don't know if the chords are right in the intro but the bassnotes are might be some misshearings about minor or major, sometimes it sounds best to play without a 3rd.) Intro: Em F G5 Am Dm6/B C Dm Em F F#m E/G# Am Em F#m G G#m F#/A# Bm Dm Em F F#m E/G# Am Verse

Gm           D+            Cm
It seems as clear as yesterday

    Ab    G      Cm
We saw it in a dream

 Gm         F#+         Cm
but dream became insanity

    Ab     G      C     F    riff:CDEbFGA
an awful gaping scream

    Bb    F         Cm   Gm
So sad to see such emptiness

    Ab     Bb        C    riff:CCAGGAC
So sad to see such tears

     Bb        F        Cm     Gm
And heaped up leaves of bitterness

       Ab      Bb       C
turned mouldy down the years

Chorus (chords as inntro):

Em F G  Am  /B  C
Nothing but the truth.

Dm  Em   F   F#m E/G# Am
Common words in use

Em F#m G      G#m  F#/A# Bm
Hard       to find excuse

Dm Em F   F#m  E/G# Am
Harder    than the truth

Intro middle8

D(m)
Like Icarus we flew too high

Bb                      C G
We flew too near the sun

D(m)
They caught us in that awful glare

Bb                        C      G
Our hapless throats were strung

     C     D         C      D
But just before the final stroke

     C       G        C       G
They took us victims of the rope

    C        D     C        D
And cast us far beyond the deep

   C       G      C      G
To lie in never ending sleep

Intro verse It seems as clear as yesterday They cast us in the deep We lie in darkest night for good Never ending sleep A never ending bitter gloom Whose darkness seldom clears A God forsaken emptiness Which fills our hearts with tears Chorus Intro End on A Major transcribed by Leif Thiborg 061019