Uriah Heep – Tales (Ukulele)
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From: [email protected] Daniel S. Fisher
Title : Tales
By: Uriah Heep
From: The Magician's Birthday (1972)
INTRO [w/Pedal Steel Guitar]
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / ...
Am Em G Am Em G Am
VERSE 1
Am Em G We told our tales as we Am Em G sat under mornin's sleepy Am Em G sky
Am Em G
Am Em G
Am Em G With all the colours of the Am Em G sunrise shining in our Am Em G eyes
Am Em G
Am Em G
F Em G One, then another with a F Em G story of yesterday's Am Em G lives
Am Em G
Am Em G
F Em G or of a lover who had F Em G gone in a moment of Am Em G strife
[Pedal Steel Guitar solo over the same chords]
VERSE 2
Am Em G No thought of sleep ever Am Em G dwells upon the wise man's Am Em G mind
Am Em G
Am Em G
Am Em G Some task or audience Am Em G stealing every moment of his Am Em G time
Am Em G
Am Em G
F Em G Thus we have learned to live while F Em G mortal man lies waiting to Am Em G die
Am Em G
Am Em G
F Em G How can we do what must be F Em G done in just one short Am Em G life?
BRIDGE
C#m And if you ask, then you should Ab know, if you still doubt you should be F told, it was not we that made it Ab so, it was by those who went Am before...
Am Em G
Am Em G
CHORUS
Am Em G And there you sit tomorrow's Am Em G child, so full of love so full of Am Em G life, but you must rise to meet the Am Em G day, lest you become another Am Em G tale, and there you sit tomorrow's ...(repeat CHORUS and FADE)
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I remember singing this at my high school talent show. That was in 1979 and
I got some very nice complements on it.
DSF