Van Morrison – Cyprus Avenue (Guitar)

Capo 3 Video Lesson
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ARTIST: Van Morrison SONG: Cyprus Avenue NOTE: This tab is based on the album version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8jPDdHd9y8 NOTE: On the third line of each verse he dips down briefly to D7 from the D when he plays live. [Chords] G 320003 G7 320001 C/G x32013 D xx0232 D7 xx0212 [Intro] G C/G G D x2 [Verse 1]
          G                   C/G               G   C/G   G
Well, I'm caught one more time, up on Cyprus Avenue

C/G                               G         C/G   G
   Caught one more time, up on Cyprus Avenue

D                                 C/G
   And I'm conquered in a car seat

                 G       C/G   G   D
Not a thing that I can do
[Verse 2]
G           G7   C/G           G                  C/G   G
   I may go crazy, before that mansion on the hill

C/G              G   C/G               G
   I may go crazy, before that mansion on the hill

D                             C/G
   But my heart keeps beating faster

G  C/G               G         D
   And my feet can't keep still
[Verse 3]
G                                     C/G            G                 C/G    G
   And all the little girls rhyme something, on the way back home from school

C/G                                                          G             C/G   G
   And all the little girls rhyme something, on the way back home from school

D                            C/G
   And the leaves fall one by one

                     G         C/G   G   D
And call the autumn time a fool
[Verse 4]
G                         C/G   G                   C/G                G
   Yeah, my t-tongue gets tied, every, every, every time I try to speak

C/G                      G             C/G        G
   My tongue gets tied, every time I try to speak

D           D7  C/G
   And my inside shakes

                          G   C/G   G   D
Just like a leaf on a tree
[Verse 5]
             G            C/G                          G    C/G   G
I think I'll go on by the river with my cherry, cherry wine

                  C/G                                              G  C/G  G
I believe I'll go walking by the railroad with my cherry, cherry wine

     D                         C/G
If I pass the rumbling station

                                  G   C/G G             D
where the lonesome engine drivers pine,    wait a minute,
[Verse 6]
             G     C/G          G C/G     G
yonder come my lady, rainbow ribbons in her hair

      C/G                                   G   C/G  G
Yonder come my lady, rainbow ribbons in her hair

          D                   D7   C/G
Six white horses and a carriage

                             G C/G     G                      D
She's returning from the fair,  baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby
[Verse 7]
      G                   C/G                G     C/G  G
Well, I'm caught one more time, up on Cyprus Avenue   Oh, Yes I am

C/G                                    G           C/G   G
   Love, Caught one more time, up on Cyprus Avenue

D                                 C/G
   And I'm conquered in a car seat

                   G           C/G   G   D
And I'm looking straight at you
[Outro]
       G C/G        G C/G
Way up on, way up on,  way up on, way up on

G                                           C/G                                    G
way up on, way up on, way up on, way up on, way up on, way up on, way up on, way up on

C/G         G           C/G  G  C/G  G            C/G
     The avenue of trees              keep walking down

C/G  G                    C/G          G
      In the wind and the rain, darling

               C/G                 G                      C/G   G
You keep walking down when the sun shone through the trees

  C/G  G            C/G       G
Nobody, no, no, no, no, nobody

C/G                        G    C/G   G
  Stops me from loving you baby

             C/G G     C/G G        C/G    G
So young and bold, fourteen-year old

C/G
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby

G   C/G
    Ooo ooo ooo   (fade)