Ralph McTell – Now This Has Started (Guitar)

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album: Red Sky (2000) [Intro] G G D C G G D D G G D C G G D7 D7 [Verse 1]
G        Bm     C      G        C            G    D7     G
It comes like a thunderbolt       Leaves you devastated

  G       Bm      C      G      C             G    D7    G
A certain look, a sudden smile    And you are captivated.

D7        Cmaj7      G       C      G       Cmaj7     D7
Sometimes that's the way it  goes   And you are  transported

   G          Bm     C      G        C      G       D7      G
Of course she has no way to know       What she has started.
[Interlude] G G D C G G D7 D7 [Verse 2]
    G          Bm        C    G     C   G      D7      G
The first time that your eyes meet    A merest glancing

 G        Bm        C       G       C     G     D7      G
Enough to make your heart a fool      Set it to dancing.

D7       Cmaj7      G         C
Stumbled words, you learn her name

    G         Cmaj7     D
And when from you she's parted

G           Bm           C       G      C     G        D7      G
Till she is yours you'll know no peace    Now this has started.
[Interlude] G G D C G G D D G G D C G G D7 D7 [Verse 3]
     G        Bm      C        G     C    G       D7     G
What weakness turns a man from love    To seek possession

   G        Bm       C       G          C       G        D7     G
So deep and dark can passion grow   His heart becomes a  prison

    D7     Cmaj7  G       C          G      Cmaj7    D
And he the jailer of that cell    In jealou-sy    he guards it

     G         Bm            C        G     C     G       D7      G
Till true love flies through walls of stone  From all she started.
[Interlude] G G D C G G D C G G D7 D7 [Verse 4]
  G      Bm      C      G       C  G       D7       G
A vacant cell, a silent shout    Echoes of freedom

   G     Bm      C       G      C      G      D7     G
An empty cage, a child's rage    Tears and confusion

D7      Cmaj7      G       C         G      Cmaj7    D
Lessons learned in lost be-lief  Are now in grief imparted

   G        Bm        C      G      C        G         D7      G
To flourish love must fly on wings   Through all she's started
[Interlude] G G D C G G D7 D7 [Verse 5]
   G      Bm       C      G        C      G       D7     G
So rare a thing, a second chance    There-in lies danger

   G        Bm       C        G    C      G         D7       G
To slip the bolts of pain and take  Gifts from this stranger

    D7    Cmaj7     G       C       G            Cmaj7  D
And never ask where she has been    That journey left uncharted

G       Bm           C        G      C   G        D7      G
Love returns through unlocked doors   To what she started.
[Outro] G G D C G G D7 D7 G Bm C G C G D7 G